Note: Front Cover -- Satellites, Oceanography and Society -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Oceanography before, and after, the advent of satellites -- Chapter 2. Development and application of satellite retrievals of ocean wave spectra -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Global Comparison of ERS-I SWM and WAM Wave Spectra -- 3. Trans-Ocean Propagation of Swell -- 4. Conclusions and Perspectives -- Chapter 3. ECMWF wave modeling and satellite altimeter wave data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Surface Wave Modeling and Prediction -- 3. Altimeter Wave Height -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 4. The use of satellite surface wind data to improve weather analysis and forecasting at the NASA Data Assimilation Office -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measurement of Surface winds from Space -- 3. Impact of Scatterometer Data on Numerical Weather Prediction -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 5. Combining altimeter observations and oceanographic data for ocean circulation and climate studies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ocean Transports -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion and Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Remote sensing of oceanic extra-tropical Rossby waves -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Are Rossby Waves? -- 3. Observations and New Theories -- 4. Processing Satellite Data to Observe Rossby Waves -- 5. Results -- 6. Rossby Waves in Models -- 7. Future Research -- Chapter 7. A study of meddies using simultaneous in-situ and satellite observations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data Description and Processing Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Chapter 8. Why care about El Niño and La Niña? -- 1. E1 Nifio, La Niña, and the Media -- 2. What are E1 Niño and La Niña? -- 3. E1 Niño and La Niña Impacts -- 4. E1 Niño/La Niña Lessons -- Chapter 9. Satellites,society, and the Peruvian fisheries during the 1997-1998 El Niño -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Methods -- 3. Results. , 4. Summary and Discussion . -- Chapter 10. Satellites and fisheries. The Namibian hake, a case study -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Remote Sensing and Fisheries -- 3. SST Predictor of Availability of Namibian Hake -- 4. Discussion -- Chapter 11. Ocean-color satellites and the phytoplankton-dust connection -- 1. Phytoplankton Regulation -- 2. Measuring Aerosols -- 3. Ocean-Color Sensors -- 4. Summary and Outlook -- Chapter 12. An overview of temporal and spatial patterns in satellite-derived chlorophyll - a imagery and their relation to ocean processes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Frequency Distributions of In-Situ Chlorophyll-a and CSAT -- 3. CSAT Variability -- 4. Conclusions -- Chapter 13. Remote-sensing studies of the exceptional summer of 1997 in the Baltic Sea: The warmest August of the century, the Oder flood , and phytoplankton blooms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Satellite Data and Methods -- 3. Results -- 4. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 14. Remote-sensing studies of seasonal variations of surface chlorophyll- a concentration in the Black Sea -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Black Sea Circulation -- 3. Data and Methods -- 4. Results -- Chapter 15. Remotely sensed coastal/deep-basin water exchange processes in the Black Sea surface layer -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Mesoscale Structures in the Northwestern Region -- 4. Mesoscale Dynamics in the Southeastern Region -- 5. Eddies and Jets in the Northeastern Region -- 6. Conclusions -- Chapter 16. Satellite-derived flow characteristics of the Caspian Sea -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Oceanography of the Caspian Sea -- 3. Results -- 4. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 17. Analyzing the 1993-1998 interannual variability of NCEP model ocean simulations: The contribution of TOPEX/Poseidon observations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Satellite Data -- 3. Results -- 4. Salinity -- 5. Concluding Remarks. , Chapter 18. Recent progress toward satellite measurements of the global sea surface salinity field -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why Measure Sea Surface Salinity From Space? -- 3. Salinity Remote Sensing -- 4. Candidate Satellite Systems to Measure Salinity -- 5. Sources of Salinity Retrieval Error -- 6. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 19. Sea surface salinity: Toward an operational remote-sensing system -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aircraft Remote Sensors -- 3. Proposals for Measuring Sea Surface Salinity from Space -- 4. Conclusions -- Appendix I. List of Acronyms -- Appendix II. Program of the International Conference on Satellites, Oceanography and Society -- Index.