Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change

Climate Change—The Background.- Remote Sensing, Systems and Data.- Satellite Observations in Global Ecology.- Satellite Data Archiving, Retrieval and Distribution.- Special Sensor Microwave/Image(SSM/I): Instrument, Data Analysis and Applications.- Basis and Structure of Climate Models.- The Use of Satellite Data in Numerical Weather Prediction.- Remote Sensing Input to Climatological Datasets.- The Microwave Limb Sounder and Error Reduction: Is What You See What You Get?.- Atmospheric Trace Gases and Aerosols.- Atmospheric Ozone Concentration Measurements.- Clouds, Cloud Observations and Cloud Feedbacks.- A Technique for Remote Sensing the Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure, Based on Fabry—Perot Interferometry of Rotational Raman Scattering Spectrum.- Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice and Its Relevance to Climate Change Processes.- The Study of Antarctica Using the ERS-1 Radar Altimeter.- The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Database for Global Change Science.- Land Surface Energy Budget.- Potential of Remote Sensing in the Thermal Band for Global Change.- Comparison Between Albedo Derived from Satellite with Different Calibration Coefficients.- Some Notes on the Oceanic Aspect of the Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change Issue.- Remote Sensing Applications to Environmental Monitoring of the Coastal Zone.- Marine Surveillance and Information System.- The State of the Problem of Ecological Monitoring in the City of St Petersburg and Its Region.- A Second-Order Two-Scale Model for Rough Surface Scattering with Applications to Scatterometry.- Politics and Climate Change.- Participants.