Publications — Dr. Josefino Comiso, NASA Emeritus Scientist

Articles and Publications

Books

Comiso, J. C., V. Espaldon and D. Eslava (editors), (2020, submitted) “Rediscovering Laguna de

Bay: A Vital Natural Resource in Crisis,” UP Press, Diliman, Quezon City, RP.

IOCCG (2015). Ocean Colour Remote Sensing in Polar Seas. Babin, M., Arrigo, K., Bélanger, S.,

Benoît-Gagné, M., Comiso, J., Forget, M-H., Frouin, R., Goyens, C., Hill, V., Hirawake, T.,

Matsuoka, A., Mitchell, G., Perovich, D., Reynolds, R., Stamnes, K., Wang, M. IOCCG Report

Series, Volume 16, International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group, Dartmouth, Canada.

Comiso, J. C., C. Blanche, V. Espaldon, F. Lansigan and T. Sarigumba et al., (2014)

“Changing Philippine Climate: Challenges to Agriculture, Natural Resources and the

Environment,” University of the Philippines Press, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I

to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker,

T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and

P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New

York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.

Comiso, J.C., 2010. Polar Oceans from Space, Springer Publishing, New York,

doi: 10.1007/978-0-387- 68300-3, ISSN: 1383-8601, e-ISBN: 978-387-68300-3,

ISBN: 978-0-387-36628-9.

Gloersen P., W. Campbell, D. Cavalieri, J. Comiso, C. Parkinson, H.J. Zwally, Arctic and Antarctic

Sea Ice, 1978-1987: Satellite Passive Microwave Observations and Analysis, NASA Spec. Publ.

511, 1992.

Parkinson, C. L., J. C. Comiso, H. J. Zwally, D. J. Cavalieri, P. Gloersen, and W. J. Campbell,

Arctic Sea Ice 1973-1976 from Satellite Passive Microwave Observations, NASA Spec. Publ.

489, 1987.

Zwally, H. J., J. C. Comiso, C. L. Parkinson, W. J. Campbell, F. D. Carsey, and P. Gloersen,

Antarctic Sea Ice 1973-1976 from Satellite Passive Microwave Observations, NASA Spec. Publ.

459, 1983.

Book Chapters

Comiso, J. C. (2020) Variability and trends of the Global Sea Ice Cover and Sea Level: Effects on

Physicochemical Parameters, In: Climate and Fresh Water Toxins, edited by Luis M. Botana,

M. Carmen Lauzao and Natalia Vilarino, De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, updated version.

Perez, G. J., J. C. Comiso, M. G. Cayetano, (2020, in Press) Swidden Agriculture and Biomass

Burning in the Philippines, Book Chapter.

Comiso, J. C., (2019) Climate Change and Sea Ice, International Encyclopedia of

Geography, Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography, doi:

10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0568.pub2

(http://www.aag.org/encyclopaedia).

Comiso, J. C., D. Hall, and I. Rigor (2019), Asymmetry in Surface Temperatures in the

Polar Regions as Observed from Space, in “Taking the Temperature of the Earth,” ed. by Glynn

Hulley and Darren Ghent, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814458-9.00005-8.

Mildrexler, D., Oyle, J., J. C. Comiso and GC Hulley, (2019) Surface Temperature Inter-

relationships, in “Taking the Temperature of the Earth,” ed. by Glynn Hulley and Darren

Ghent, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814458-9.00005-8.

Comiso, J. C. (2015) Variability and trends of the Global Sea Ice Cover and Sea

Level: Effects on Physicochemical Parameters, In: Climate and Fresh Water Toxins, edited

by Luis M. Botana, M. Carmen Lauzao and Natalia Vilarino, De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany.

Comiso, J. C., (2014) Climate Change and Sea Ice, International Encyclopedia of

Geography, Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography,

(http://www.aag.org/encyclopaedia)

Comiso, J. C., (2014) Sea ice concentration and extent, Encyclopedia of Remote Sensing,

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/Springer Reference_327226, 21 p.

Vaughan, D.G., J.C. Comiso, I. Allison, J. Carrasco, G. Kaser, R. Kwok, P. Mote, T. Murray, F.

Paul, J. Ren, E. Rignot, O. Solomina, K. Steffen and T. Zhang, 2013: Observations: Cryosphere.

In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the

Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D.

Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M.

Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY,

USA.

Walker, D. A., B.C. Forbes, M.O. Leibman, H.E. Epstein, U.S. Bhatt, J.C. Comiso, D.S.

Drozdov, A.A. Gubarkov, G.J. Jia, E. Karlejaarvi, J.O. Kaplan, V. Khumutov, G.P.

Kofinas, T. Kumpula, P. Kuss, N.G. Moskalenko, M.K. Raynolds, V.E.

Romanovskey, F. Stammler, and Q. Yu (2011) Cumulative effects of rapid

land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia, Chapter 9 in

Eurasian Arctic Land Cover Land Use, ed. by G. Gutman and P. Goismann. Springer,

Amsterdam, 306p.

Goetz, S. J., H. E. Epstein, D. Alcaraz, P. S. A. Beck, U. Bhatt, A. Bunn, J. Comiso,

G. J. Jia, J. O. Kaplan, H. Lischke, A. Lloyd, Q. Yu, and D. A. Walker (2011)

Recent changes in Arctic vegetation: satellite observations and simulation

model predictions, Chapter 2 in Eurasian Arctic land cover and land use in a

changing climate, ed. by G. Gutman and A. Reissell, Springer, Amsterdam, 306p.

Comiso, J.C. (2010) Variability and Trends of the Global Sea ice Cover, Chapter 6, in

Sea Ice - An introduction to its physics, biology, chemistry, and geology, ed. by David Thomas

and Gerhard Dieckmann, Wiley, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 205-246.

Comiso, J. C., and M. Drinkwater, 2007. Antarctic Polynyas: ventilation, bottom water, and high

productivity for the world's oceans, Our Changing Planet, ed. by M. King, C. Parkinson,

K. Partington, and R. Williams, Cambridge University Press.

Drinkwater, M. and J.C. Comiso, 2007. Sea Ice: the shifting crust of the Southern Ocean, Our

Changing Planet, ed by M. King, C. Parkinson, K. Partington, and R. Williams, Cambridge

University Press.

Comiso, J.C., 2003. Large Scale Characteristics and Variability of the Global Sea ice Cover

Chapter 4, in Sea Ice - an introduction to its physics, biology, chemistry, and geology, ed. by

David Thomas and Gerhard Dieckmann, Blackwell, Scientific LTD., pp. 112-142.

Comiso, J.C., and A.L. Gordon, 1998. Interannual variabilities of summer ice minimum, coastal

polynyas, and bottom water formation in the Weddell Sea, in Antarctic sea ice physical

properties and processes, AGU Antarctic Research Series Volume, edited by M. Jeffries,

pp 293-315.

Comiso, J.C., 1995. Remote Sensing of the Arctic, in Arctic Oceanography: Marginal Ice Zones

And Continental Shelves, ed. by W. Smith and J. Grebmeier, AGU Monograph on Coastal and

Estuarine Studies, Vol. 48, pp.1-50.

Comiso, J.C., 1995. Sea ice geophysical parameters from SMMR and SSM/I data, Chapter 20, in

Oceanographic Application of Remote Sensing, ed. by M. Ikeda and F. Dobson, CRC Press Inc.,

Boca Raton, FL, pp. 327-344.

Comiso, J.C, T.C. Grenfell, M. Lange, A. Lohanick, R. Moore, and P. Wadhams, 1992 "Microwave

remote sensing of the Southern Ocean ice cover," Chapter 12, Microwave Remote Sensing of

Sea Ice, (ed. by Frank Carsey), American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 243-259.

Wadhams, P. and J.C. Comiso, 1992. "The ice thickness distribution inferred using remote sensing

techniques," Chapter 21, Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice, (ed. by Frank Carsey),

American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 375-383.

Eppler, D., M.R. Anderson, D.J. Cavalieri, J.C. Comiso, L.D. Farmer, C. Garrity, P. Gloersen, T.

Grenfell, M. Hallikainen, A.W. Lohanick, C. Maetzler, R.A. Melloh, I. Rubinstein, C.T. Swift,

C. Garrity, 1992. "Passive microwave signatures of sea ice," Chapter 4, Microwave Remote

Sensing of Sea Ice, (ed. by Frank Carsey), American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.,

47-71.

Steffen, K., D. J. Cavalieri, J. C. Comiso, K. St. Germain, P. Gloersen, J. Key, and I. Rubinstein,

1992. "The estimation of geophysical parameters using Passive Microwave Algorithms,"

Chapter 10, Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice, (ed. by Frank Carsey), American

Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 201-231.

Martin, S., K. Steffen, J.C. Comiso, D.J. Cavalieri, M. Drinkwater, B.M. Holt, 1992. "Microwave

Remote Sensing of Polynyas," Chapter 15, Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice, (ed. by Frank

Carsey), American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 303-311.

Grenfell, T.C, D.J. Cavalieri, J.C. Comiso, M.R. Drinkwater, R.G. Onstott, I. Rubinstein, K.

Steffen, I. Rubinstein, D.P. Winebrenner, 1992. "Microwave signatures of new and young ice,"

Chapter 14, Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice, (ed. by Frank Carsey), American

Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 291-301.

Articles

Climate change and sea ice - J. Comiso. The International Encyclopedia of Geography. Edited by Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, and Richard A. Marston. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This article is a US Government work and is in the public domain in the United States of America.

Detailed validation of AMSR2 sea ice concentration data using Modis data in the Sea of Okhotsk - K. Cho, K. Naoki, J. Comiso. Tokai University, Kitakaname Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan - Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

Satellite observed salinity distributions at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere: A comparison of four products - Cynthia Garcia-Eidell , Josefino C. Comiso , Emmanuel Dinnat, and Ludovic Brucker.

Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic-Boreal 1 System - Bryan N. Duncan, (in alphabetical order) James B. Abshire1, Ludovic Brucker, James Carton, Josefino C. Comiso, Emmanuel P. Dinnat, Bruce C. Forbes, Alemu Gonsamo, Watson W. 6 Gregg, Dorothy K. Hall, Iolanda Ialongo, Randi Jandt, Ralph A. Kahn, Alexey Karpechko, Stephan R. Kawa, Timo Kumpula, Erkki Kyrölä, Tatiana V. Loboda, Kyle C. McDonald, Paul M. Montesano, Ray Nassar, Christopher S. R. Neigh, Lesley E. Ott, Claire L. Parkinson, Benjamin Poulter, Jouni Pulliainen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Brendan M. Rogers, Cecile S. Rousseaux, Amber J. Soja1, Nicholas Steiner, Johanna Tamminen, Maria A. 11 Tzortzioul, James S. Wang, Jennifer D. Watts, David M. Winker, Dong L. Wu

Arctic Ocean Primary Productivity: The Response of Marine Algae to Climate 1 Warming and Sea Ice Decline - K. E. Frey, J. C. Comiso, L. W. Cooper, J. M. Grebmeier, Larry V. Stock

A Multilayer Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor Product of Greenland from MODIS - Dorothy K. Hall, Richard I. Cullather, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo , Josefino C. Comiso, Brooke C. Medley and Sophie M. Nowicki

Changing seasonality of panarctic tundra vegetation in relationship to climatic variables - Uma S Bhatt, Donald AWalker, Martha K Raynolds, Peter A Bieniek, Howard E Epstein, Josefino C Comiso, Jorge E Pinzon, Compton J Tucker, Michael Steele, Wendy Ermold and Jinlun Zhang

Variability and trends in the Arctic Sea ice cover: Results from different techniques - Josefino C. Comiso , Walter N. Meier, and Robert Gersten

Positive Trend in the Antarctic Sea Ice Cover and Associated Changes in Surface Temperature - JOSEFINO C. COMISO, ROBERT A. GERSTEN, LARRY V. STOCK, JOHN TURNER, GAY J. PEREZ, AND KOHEI CHO

Solve Antarctica’s sea-ice puzzle - John Turner, Josefino Comiso

* More articles available upon request.