An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite
imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the
glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of
analysis methodologies. Includes an e-published supplement.
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space - Satellite Multispectral
Imaging of Glaciers (GLIMS book for short) is the leading
state-of-the-art technical and interpretive presentation of satellite
image data and analysis of the changing state of the world's glaciers.
The book is the most definitive, comprehensive product of a global
glacier remote sensing consortium, Global Land Ice Measurements from
Space (GLIMS, http: //www.glims.org). With 33 chapters and a companion
e-supplement, the world's foremost experts in satellite image analysis
of glaciers analyze the current state and recent and possible future
changes of glaciers across the globe and interpret these findings for
policy planners.
Climate change is with us for some time to come, and its impacts are
being felt by the world's population. The GLIMS Book, to be released
about the same time as the IPCC's 5th Assessment report on global
climate warming, buttresses and adds rich details and authority to the
global change community's understanding of climate change impacts on the
cryosphere. This will be a definitive and technically complete reference
for experts and students examining the responses of glaciers to climate
change. World experts demonstrate that glaciers are changing in response
to the ongoing climatic upheaval in addition to other factors that
pertain to the circumstances of individual glaciers. The global mosaic
of glacier changes is documented by quantitative analyses and are placed
into a perspective of causative factors. Starting with a Foreword,
Preface, and Introduction, the GLIMS book gives the rationale for and
history of glacier monitoring and satellite data analysis. It includes a
comprehensive set of six "how-to" methodology chapters, twenty-five
chapters detailing regional glacier state and dynamical changes, and an
in-depth summary and interpretation chapter placing the observed glacier
changes into a global context of the coupled atmosphere-land-ocean
system.
An accompanying e-supplement will include oversize imagery and other
other highly visual renderings of scientific data.
