Regional Climatic Variability and its Impacts on Flood and Drought Hazards

ook Description Advances in Water Science Methodologies addresses ways and means of using remote sensing data to elucidate the interactions between the atmospheric, oceanic and hydrological processes. Various water-related applications, such as water resources management, environmental monitoring, climate prediction, agriculture, preparation for and mitigation of extreme weather events, are characterized by widely varying requirements of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolutions of the remotely sensed data. This book is composed with great care to deal with the appropriate data assimilation methodologies and technology transfer practices, to cover different dimensions of the subject area and to identify potential growth areas of remote sensing applications. By linking with cognate subjects, such as data management and geomorphology, and with the support of two case histories of water resource management, dealing with water harvesting and water pollution, a fuller picture of the subject area is provided. The book is intended for university students and professionals in the area of remote sensing, water sciences and technologies, earth and environmental sciences and related areas.