COSPAR: Space Research

ContentsForewordPrefaceHighlights of Recent Space Research Global Development of Space Research, 1977-1978Remote Sensing The Earth's Surface The Spectral Characteristics of Selected Surface Phenomena and their Impact on the Design of an Opto-electronic Multispectral System Photointerpretation of Computer Enhanced LANDSAT Images of Serbia (Yugoslavia) The Use of Weather Satellite Data in the Evaluation of National Water Resources, with Special Reference to the Sultanate of Oman The Microwave Remote Sensing Experiment in the First Spacelab Payload and Plans for Further Spacelab Instrumentation Meteorology Atmospheric and Surface Radiation Balance as Determined from Satellite Data Analysis of Cloud and Precipitation Fields from Satellite IR and Microwave Pictures Preliminary Results from the First European Geostationary Meteorological Satellite METEOSAT Dynamic Interpretation of METEOSAT Imagery Standardization of Satellite Images of the NOAA Scanning Radiometer Signals for an Objective Cloud Classification Dynamic Classification of Mesoscale Cloud Patterns Infrared Measurements over Cirrus Clouds in the 6.5 and 11.5 µ¿ Regions On the Assimilation of Non-Simultaneous Satellite and Conventional Meteorological Data Using Statistical Weights The Middle Atmosphere Remote Sensing Studies Review of Climatological Information Obtained from Remote Sensing of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Water Vapour and Ozone in the Mesosphere Observed from "Salyut-5" Comparisons of Atmospheric Temperatures Derived from Falling Sphere and Grenade Experiments Conducted at Wallops Island in 1975 Direct Observations Summary of Atmospheric Observations and Investigations in the Altitude Region from 20 to 80 km Preliminary Results of the Intercomparison Test of US and USSR Meteorological Systems at Wallops Island August 1977 Preliminary Results of the US-USSR Meteorological Rocketsonde Intercomparison Held at Wallops Island, August 1977 Annual Variation and Variability of Meteorological Parameters in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Stratospheric Motions as Noted from Daily Rocket Soundings Equatorial Stratospheric and Mesospheric Structural Variations During the Years 1971-74 Models Review of Data and Models of the Middle Atmosphere Physical Properties Affecting the Existence of Small Ice Particles in the Mesosphere Planetary Waves The Vertical Structure of Planetary Waves and Associated Meridional Transports of Momentum and Heat in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Variations of Turbopause Altitude Variation of the Turbopause Level in the Polar Regions The Thermosphere CIRA 1972, Recent Atmospheric Models, and Improvements in Progress Variability of Solar Ultraviolet Flux and its Significance to Models of the Neutral Upper Atmosphere Some Features of EUV Solar Activity Indices Comparison of Atmospheric Temperatures According to CIRA-72 and Nightglow Data Investigation of the 27-day Periodicity in Thermospheric Density Fluctuations Natural Gas Density and Temperature Incoherent Scatter Data Related to Thermaspheric Modelling Analysis of Perturbations of the Total Density Determined by the Lowg Accelerometer Cactus Determination of Density Scale Height Profiles Geomagnetic Effects in the Exosphere HEAO-1 Observations of X-ray Fluorescent Emission Lines from the Earth1s Sunlit Atmosphere Mass Spectrometer Observations Gas Densities Near 230 km from Orbital Drag and Mass Spectrometer Measurements - A Comparison Aeros-B: Annual Variations of He,N,0,N2, and Ar During Low Solar Activity at 4 and 16 hours Local Time U.V.