Book Review: Unravelling Europe's "Migration Crisis": Journeys over Land and Sea

Retrieval of Aerosol Properties over Land and over Sea

Aerosols affect, among others, climate [1], air quality [2], health [3], and electro-optical observations. Examples of the latter are the effect of aerosols on the retrievals of surface properties from satellite observations, or the degradation of electro-optical systems used, e.g., for military purposes. Both effects are due to the extinction of radiation at wavelengths from the UV, through th...

Book Review: Storm over the Constitution

ApL D2p radar Altimeter over Land and sea ice

easuring changes in the cryosphere from satellite-based altimeters has and will continue to provide data that are essential to our understanding of the long-term trends of the earth’s ice cover. over the past years, ApL has played a major role in airborne field activities observing continental ice sheets, outlet glaciers, and sea ice using the delayDoppler phase-monopulse (D2p) airborne radar a...

Book Review the Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered

The author claims that his motivation to write this book is rooted in his realization that in the post cold war era the real threat to capitalism is from within, and to present this idea systematically he had already planned to write a book but, ". .. was doing it in a leisurely fashion. .. " (p. xi). However the Asian financial crisis that started from Thailand in July, 1997 made him realize t...

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