Leonid Yurganov
Biography
Leonid Yurganov has been involved in remote sensing of greenhouse gases since 1969. He took part in validation of the first space-borne MOPITT instrument launched in 2000. Before that, working in USSR, he investigated carbon monoxide and methane near Moscow, in Antarctica and in the Arctic. After 2006 in the USA he published a set of papers on CO emission from forest fires in the Northern Hemisphere. During last 6 years his point of study is Arctic methane.