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Satellite Remote Sensing of Weather, Water and Climate Couplings and Phenomena

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Satellite remote sensing presents a robust tool to address and unravel coupled weather, water and climate phenomena at multiple scales. The temporal and spatial scales of atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic environmental phenomena span the period range from isolated events, particularly extreme events, to that of sub-seasonal variability in the Earth’s interactively coupled atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic systems. There are significant associated implications for human and ecological systems and these have become an emerging topic around which issues of societal and economic value and sustainability can be examined and used for societal response and planning. In this issue, remote sensing tools comprehensively address these phenomena because of the incredible spatial synoptic coverage that they provide. Coupled with environmental observational data sets and mathematical modeling output, satellite remote sensing couples observed and/or modeled environmental processes to societal impacts. Moreover, satellite data used for numerical model validation, are now being assimilated into next-gen numerical modeling strategies, advancing event prognostications. Specific topics include coastal renewable energy assessment; storm induced coastal and inland flooding; flood hazard mapping; atmospheric coastal frontal system detection; African SAL detection; ocean heat content; multi-scale storm phenomena components; atmospheric rivers; and new uncharted uses of different types of remotely sensed imagery for pattern recognition.

Prof. Len Pietrafesa
Dr. Francesco Bignami
Dr. Emanuele Böhm
Prof. Biao Zhang

Prof. Qing Xu

Guest Editors

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