HR: 14:00h
AN: OS23B-02 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards and Associated Processes
AU: * Kafatos, M
EM: mkafatos@gmu.edu
AF: Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason University 4400 University Dr MS 6C3, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
AU: Singh, R P
EM: rsingh3@gmu.edu
AF: Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason University 4400 University Dr MS 6C3, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
AB: The Earth is increasingly subject to hazards either from natural causes or anthropogenic influences. As global climate change is on the increase, such hazards may take on increasingly severe forms and become disasters. All such hazards produce atmospheric signatures which are the result of land-ocean-atmosphere interactions. Tropical cyclones, floods, earthquakes, harmful algal blooms, snow avalanches and other hazards are particularly damaging to coastal areas and often threaten coastal megacities. Here, we examine how remote sensing observations from multi sensor platforms and model runs can be used to analyze, track and even to get early information about the onset of such hazards: dust storms, forest fires, harmful algal blooms and tropical cyclones.
DE: 1630 Impacts of global change (1225)
DE: 1631 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218, 1843, 3322)
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
DE: 1803 Anthropogenic effects (4802, 4902)
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting