List of contributors xv Cryosphere Science: Series Preface xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii About the companion website xxiv 1 Remote sensing and the cryosphere 1 Marco Tedesco 2 Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere 17 Marco Tedesco 3 Remote sensing of snow extent 31 Dorothy K. Hall, Allan Frei, and Stephen J. Déry 4 Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution from space 48 Alexander A. Khokanovsky 5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent 73 Marco Tedesco, Chris Derksen, Jeffrey S. Deems, and James L. Foster 6 Remote sensing of melting snow and ice 99 Marco Tedesco,Thomas Mote, Konrad Steffen, Dorothy K. Hall, and Waleed Abdalati 7 Remote sensing of glaciers 123 Bruce H. Raup, Liss M.

Andreassen, Tobias Bolch, and Suzanne Bevan 8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets 157 Lora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and Julie Miller 9 Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity 187 Prasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan 10 Gravimetry measurements from space 231 Scott B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, T.J. Sabaka, B.D. Loomis, M.

Horwath, and A.A. Arendt 11 Remote sensing of sea ice 248 Walter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus 12 Remote sensing of lake and river ice 273 Claude R. Duguay, Monique Bernier, Yves Gauthier, and Alexei Kouraev 13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground 307 Sebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, and Andreas Kääb 14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere 345 Hans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco 15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere 382 Marco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, CharlesWebb, and Thorsten Markus Index 393.