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High Latitude Climate and Remote Sensing
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.
200 pages, Hardcover
First published December 31, 1996
About the author
Kirill Ya. Kondratyev
24 booksКирилл Яковлевич Кондратьев
Kirill Y. Kondratyev (14 June 1920 – 1 May 2006) was a Russian atmospheric physicist.
Kondratyev was born about 300 km northwest of Moscow. He went to school in Leningrad and in 1938 entered the University of Leningrad to study physics, mathematics, and chemistry. In 1941, he joined the Russian army and experienced the siege of Leningrad. He graduated in atmospheric physics in 1946 and was made and assistant professor in the Faculty of Physics. He later held the posts of lecturer, research scientist, professor of atmospheric physics, chief of the Department of Atmospheric Physics, University Vice-Rector and Rector. From 1958-61 he was Head of the Department of Radiation Studies at the Main Geophysical Observatory. He was a staff member of the Institute for Lake Research and the Research Centre for Ecological Safety. He helped to create the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Astronautics, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1970), the American Meteorological Society and the Royal Meteorological Society. He received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Lille (France), Athens (Greece) and Budapest (Hungary). His prizes include the USSR State Prize and the twelfth International Meteorological Organization Prize. He was editorial advisor to Proceedings of the Russian Geographic Society (Russia), Idojaras (Hungary), Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (Austria), Atmosfera (Mexico), Il Nuovo Cimento C (Italy) and Sustainable Development (USA).
He was a leading researcher in the Complex Atmospheric Energetic Experiment (CAENEX) project, 1970-75, the object of which was to study the transport of all categories of energy and all types of flux heat divergence in the atmosphere. Along with determining the shortwave(IR) absorption of atmospheric aerosols.
Kondratyev served as a member of the International Programme Committee for the World Conference on Climate Change, held in Moscow in 2003, where he presented a paper entitled "Uncertainties of Global Climate Change Observations and Simulation Modeling." His skepticism about global warming is said to have influenced the views of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, on climate change.
He died on 1 May 2006.
Kirill Y. Kondratyev (14 June 1920 – 1 May 2006) was a Russian atmospheric physicist.
Kondratyev was born about 300 km northwest of Moscow. He went to school in Leningrad and in 1938 entered the University of Leningrad to study physics, mathematics, and chemistry. In 1941, he joined the Russian army and experienced the siege of Leningrad. He graduated in atmospheric physics in 1946 and was made and assistant professor in the Faculty of Physics. He later held the posts of lecturer, research scientist, professor of atmospheric physics, chief of the Department of Atmospheric Physics, University Vice-Rector and Rector. From 1958-61 he was Head of the Department of Radiation Studies at the Main Geophysical Observatory. He was a staff member of the Institute for Lake Research and the Research Centre for Ecological Safety. He helped to create the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.
He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Astronautics, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1970), the American Meteorological Society and the Royal Meteorological Society. He received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Lille (France), Athens (Greece) and Budapest (Hungary). His prizes include the USSR State Prize and the twelfth International Meteorological Organization Prize. He was editorial advisor to Proceedings of the Russian Geographic Society (Russia), Idojaras (Hungary), Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (Austria), Atmosfera (Mexico), Il Nuovo Cimento C (Italy) and Sustainable Development (USA).
He was a leading researcher in the Complex Atmospheric Energetic Experiment (CAENEX) project, 1970-75, the object of which was to study the transport of all categories of energy and all types of flux heat divergence in the atmosphere. Along with determining the shortwave(IR) absorption of atmospheric aerosols.
Kondratyev served as a member of the International Programme Committee for the World Conference on Climate Change, held in Moscow in 2003, where he presented a paper entitled "Uncertainties of Global Climate Change Observations and Simulation Modeling." His skepticism about global warming is said to have influenced the views of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, on climate change.
He died on 1 May 2006.
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