Dynamic Earth Environments

Dynamic Earth Environments
Remote Sensing Observations from Shuttle-Mir Missions

edited by

Kamlesh P. Lulla

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Office of Earth Sciences
Houston, Texas USA

and

Lev V. Dessinov

Russian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Geography
Laboratory of Remote Sensing Moscow, Russia

with

Cynthia A. Evans,	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Patricia W. Dickerson,	*New York Chichester * Weinheim * Brisbane * Singapore * Toronto**
Julie A. Robinson	2000 ISBN 0-471-39005-4
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Contents

Foreword
F. Culbertson and V. V. Ryumin
Preface
K. P. Lulla and L. V. Desinov

Links to Color Images

	Shuttle-Mir Earth Science Investigations: Studying Dynamic Earth Environments from the Mir Space Station C. A. Evans, K. P. Lulla, L. V. Dessinov, N. F. Glazovskiy, N. S. Kasimov and Yu. F. Knizhnikov
	Russian Visual Observations of Earth: Historical Perspective N. F. Glazovskiy and L. V. Dessinov
	Twenty-Eight Years of Urban Growth in North America Quantified by Analysis of Photographs from Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle-Mir J. A. Robinson, B. McRay and K. P. Lulla
	Fluctuating Water Levels as Indicators of Global Change: Examples from Around the World C. A. Evans, J. Caruana, D. L. Amsbury, and K. P. Lulla
	The 1997-1998 El Niño: Images of Floods and Drought C. A. Evans, J. A. Robinson, M. J. Wilkinson, S. Runco, P. W. Dickerson, D. L. Amsbury and K. P. Lulla
	Imaging Aerosols from Low Earth Orbit: Photographic Results from the Shuttle-Mir and Shuttle Programs M. J. Wilkinson, J. D. Wheeler, R. J. Charlson, and K. P. Lulla
	Biomass Burning and Smoke Palls with Observations from Space Shuttle and Shuttle-Mir Missions M. J. Wilkinson, K. P. Lulla, and M. Glasser
	Windows of Opportunity: Photo Survey of the Mir Earth Observation Windows P. Saganti and K.P. Lulla

Caspian Sea

	Geographical, Geological and Ecological Effects of Caspian Sea-Level Fluctuations: Introduction N. F. Glazovskiy and V. A. Rudakov
	A Caspian Chronicle: Sea-Level Fluctuations between 1982 and 1997 P. W. Dickerson
	Morphological and Geological Structure of the Northern Coast of the Caspian Sea L. B. Aristarkhova, A. A. Svitoch and O. N. Bratanova
	Shoreline Dynamics and the Hydrographic System of the Volga Delta N. I. Alekseevskiy, D. N. Aibulatov and S. V. Chistov
	Changes in Avian Habitats in Volga Delta Wetlands during Caspian Sea-Level Fluctuations E. A. Baldina, I. A. Labutina, G. M. Rusanov, A. K. Gorbunov, A. F. Zhivoglyad and J. de Leeuw
	Changes in Coastal Vegetation in the Northern Caspian Region during Sea-Level Rise V. I. Kravtsova and E. G. Myalo
	Dynamics of the Northeastern Caspian Sea Coastal Zone in Connection with Sea-Level Rise V. I. Kravtsova
	Evolution of the Gulf of Kara-Bogaz-Gol in the Last Century A. N. Varushchenko, S. A. Lukyanova, G. D. Solovyeva, A.N. Kosarev and A. V. Kurayev
	Eddy Formation in the Caspian Sea L. M. Shipilova
	Geomorphology of Southern Azerbaijan and Coastal Responses to the Caspian Trangression E. I. Ignatov and G. D. Solovieva
	Land-use Changes in the Northwest Caspian Coastal Area, 1978-1996: Case Study of the Republic of Kalmykia A. S. Shestakov

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