With the release of our special issue on “Microwaves in Climate Change” we are hoping to inform and interest a whole new group of engineers and scientists in the applications and technologies that help bridge the research and measurements being conducted to track and understand climate change, monitor atmospheric chemistry and evolution, develop alternative energy sources, help with waste conversion and alternative fuel generation, and provide resources for electrification, transportation, energy harvesting, efficient heating, power beaming, and nearly every sector of the society relying on communications.

Our special issue contains 16 great paper contributions and an Introduction that gives our goals and special reasons for releasing this issue on the most important global issue of our time.  The papers span a very wide swath of topics from ozone monitoring, power beaming, and energy harvesting, to bird migration and agricultural emissions monitoring.  These articles come both from traditional EE communities and a range of geoscientists and physicists.