From the reviews:
"This book covers the lectures given there by experts, presented as 17 chapters, and arranged in four parts which cover the ground specified in the books sub-title. All in all, this is valuable and timely summary of the state of the art for observing and understanding the composition of the Earths atmosphere, which is so precious a resource to us humans." (M. J. Rycroft, Surveys in Geophysics, Vol. 28, 2007)
Dr. Guido Visconti isprofessorat the Department of Physcis at l'Aquila University,Italy. He isa leading scientist in the field of remote sensing and has written and edited several books, and made numerous other contributions to thefield.
The other editors with a wealth of knowledge and experience areaffiliated to respectively l'Aqulia University (Dr. Di Carlo), Penn State University (Dr. Brune), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Dr. Schoeberl) and Forschungszentrum Julich (Dr. Wahner).