Author Description

A comprehensive treatment of the microwave remote sensing techniques used to monitor alterations in the climate at high latitudes as a principal indicator of larger global climate change. Two Russian scientists and one from Norway present original research, much of it published for the first time in the west. They explore the principal components of high-latitude environmental dynamics, the composition of the atmosphere, and the interactions between cloudiness and radiation. They emphasize the important of the practical applications of microwave sensing not only for environmentalists and ecologists, but also in the fishing and shipping industries. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.