Part 1 Global and mesoscale modeling and data needs: large-scale land-atmosphere models and data needs, P.R. Rowntree; mesoscale land-atmosphere models and usefulness of microwave remote-sensing data, J. Noilhan and J.-C. Calvet; snow cover and snow mass estimates from remote sensing, climatology and the United Kingdom Meterological Office general circulation model, J.L. Foster et al; soil moisture estimation - comparisons between hydrologic model estimates and remotely sensed estimates, E.F. Wood. Part 2 Synergism: sensitivity of active and passive microwave sensors to land parameters, P. Pamploni; theory of microwave scattering effect of discrete scatterers, L. Tsang et al; synergism of optical and microwave observations for land surface studies, B.J. Choudhury; radiometry at infrared and microwave frequencies, T. Schmugge; synergism of active and passive microwave data for estimating bare soil surface moisture, S.S. Saatchi et al. Part 3 Snow: intercomparison of snow retrieval algorithms by means of spaceborne microwave radiometry, H. Rott and T. Nagler; Canadian development and use of snow cover information from passive microwave satellite data, B.E. Goodison and A.E. Walker; application of SSM/I data for snow cover and climate research, R.L. Armstrong; size parameters of snow grains in scattering and emission models, Y.-Q. Jin; monitoring snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau using passive microwave satellite data, D.A. Robinson and T.E. Spies; passive microwave remote sensing of snow - volume scattering in snow and parametric inversion of snow parameters with an artificial neural network, L. Tsang. Part 4 Vegetation. Part 5 Soil Moisture. Part 6 Surface temperature. Part 7 Atmospheric correction and precipitation. Part 8 Instrumentation. (Part contents)