Radiation and Water in the Climate System:Remote Measurements——Edited by Ehrhard Raschke,Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg,Germany,1996 614 pp., ISBN 3-540-61470-2

This book is the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Science Institute "Remote Sensing of Processes Governing Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System",held in Pln,Germany 1-12 May 1995.In this book,a total of 21 conference papers are included with a special part for poster summaries.All the papers are modified or shorten versions of the original presentations and are attached with an enhanced quotation of literature fordeeper information.As the editor Dr.E.Raschke said in the Foreword."It is not perfect.and the reader may find here and there inconsistencies or even (what she/he may interpretas) an error or incompleteness.We left it entirely to the responsibility of each author toprepare the text and content according to her/his own lines.since we felt an urgent needto bring these lectures as fast as possible to the attention of the open scientific communityfor the future use."