Chapter 1: Introduction Review of US and international operational satellite programs that have microwave imagers and sounders on board and their major mission goals in the Earth environmental monitoring Chapter 2: Satellite Microwave Radiometer System Introduce microwave radiometer system components, Radiometric linear and nonlinear calibration, Antenna theory including characterization of APC gain, spill-over from side-lobe and polarization, Backus-Gilbert resampling for noise reduction and foot print matching On-orbit absolute calibration from GPSRO data, and characterization of scan angle correction. Chapter 3: Atmospheric Absorption and Scattering Optical parameters used in atmospheric remote sensing Absorption spectrum from oxygen and water vapor, Zeeman splitting Scattering properties from cloud hydrometeors and approximation form on phase matrix and Rayleigh approximation, Chapter 4: Microwave Radiative Transfer Theory Requirements for microwave radiative transfer (e.g. full vector model) General radiative transfer modeling and discrete ordinate method Approximation leading to emission and scattering based radiative transfer used for remote sensing Ocean surface emissivity model (two-scale approximation) Land surface emissivity model including snow dense medium approach Chapter 5: Microwave Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Atmospheric temperature and water profile, cloud liquid/ice, Land surface parameters including surface emissivity, temperature, soil moisture and snow cover Ocean surface parameters including SST and SSW, sea ice concentration Global radio-frequency interference (RFI) using normalized PCA and double NPCA Chapter 6: Applications of Microwave Data in Weather Event Monitoring and Forecasts Hurricane and typhoon warm core analysis Balanced wind analysis from microwave sounders Satellite data assimilation and quality control Impacts of satellite data assimilation on hurricane track and intensity forecasts Flood monitoring Chapter 7: Applications of Microwave Data in Climate Research Requirements for monitoring climate trends from satellites Cross calibration of microwave data for fundamental climate data record Analysis of climate trend of microwave sounder and imager