This text provides a foundation in both the theoretical and practical aspects of radiative transfer, for advanced students of atmospheric, oceanic and environmental sciences. The transfer of solar and infrared radiation through optically-thick clouds, aerosol layer, and the oceanic mixed layer is presented through the use of heuristic models of scattering and absorption, and a systematic approach to formulation and solution of the radiative transfer equation. Problems such as the the transmission of ultraviolet radiation through the atmosphere and ocean, remote sensing, solar heating and infrared cooling processes, UV biological dose rates, and Greenhouse warming are solved using a variety of methods. This self-contained, systematic treatment will prepare students from a range of disciplines in problems concerning the effects of solar and infrared radiation on natural systems. The hardback edition received excellent reviews.
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"...the book provides a lucid and reasonably complete, practical treatment of the fundamentals of plane-parallel radiative transfer theory in the atmosphere and ocean and the exchange of radiant energy between the atmosphere and ocean. The book is easy to read, and there are many examples to illustrate the concepts discussed...[It] should serve well as an introduction to radiative transfer." EOS
"All in all, this is a valuable resource for those interested in terrestrial radiative transfer. It contains good discussions and physical explanations within the main text, useful summaries, notes, comments, and up-to-date references." Physics Today
"All in all, this is a valuable resource for those interested in terrestrial radiative transfer. It contains good discussions and physical explanations within the main text, useful summaries, notes, comments, and up-to-date references." Physics Today
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This text provides a foundation in both the theoretical and practical aspects of radiative transfer, for advanced students of atmospheric, oceanic and environmental sciences. Problems such as the the transmission of ultraviolet radiation through the atmosphere and ocean, remote sensing, solar heating and infrared cooling processes, UV biological dose rates, and Greenhouse warming are solved using a variety of methods. This self-contained, systematic treatment will prepare students from a range of disciplines in problems concerning the effects of solar and infrared radiation on natural systems. The hardback edition received excellent reviews.
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The service provided is indeed very good. However, inevitably there exist some printing mistakes in this hard cover edition. Some pages are confused with others, also some characters are printed wrong. That's why I just give it 4 stats other than 5.
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Great physical insight solving radiative transfer problems,
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This review is from: Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series) (Paperback)
This text covers a broad range of topics in radiative transfer with clarity and style. What is particularly appreciated is that the text not only provides detailed solutions to radiative transfer problems, but discusses their weaknesses and strengths in practical applications, and also provides unusual insight into their physical meaning. My only complaint is that the notation is somewhat unconventional (for example the single-scattering albedo is represented by 'a'), and this takes some getting used to.
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one of the best textbooks that I ever read,
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This review is from: Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series) (Paperback)
This is really a talk-to-student text book, especially among the ones of radiative transfer topic. It reads much easier than Goody's. Also more updated and providing more pracitical guidance for those who want to write up a small program to test out some theories and those serious ones, like atmospheric radiative transfer majors.
I do find quite a few typos and mistakes in equations that are still not corrected in their online errata. The denotation letters are a bit confusing, but no worse than the other ones. I would recommend it to beginners definitely!
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This chapter presents a brief overview of the spectra of the shortwave solar and longwave terrestrial radiation fields and the basic structure of atmospheres and oceans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flux emittance, flux absorptance, flux reflectance, flux transmittance, spectral net flux, beam absorptance, azimuthally averaged phase function, collimated incidence, planetary radiative equilibrium, reflecting lower boundary, spherical albedo, shortwave radiative transfer, atmospheric constituent profiles, longwave cloud, planetary media, imbedded source, greenhouse factor, liquid water path, hemispherical fluxes, prototype problem, flux albedo, radiative transfer equation, conservative scattering, radiative transfer schemes, beam transmittance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Applied Optics, Kirchhoff's Law, Exact Twostr, Academic Press, Space Sci, Cambridge University Press, Monte Carlo, Basic Properties of Radiation, Derive Eqs, Selected Papers, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, Clarendon Press, Dover Publications, Inhomogeneous Multilayered Media, Marine Physics, Matrix Eigensolutions, Matrix Formulation of the Discrete-Ordinate Method, Modeling of Shortwave Radiative Effects, Oxford University Press, San Diego New!
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This chapter presents a brief overview of the spectra of the shortwave solar and longwave terrestrial radiation fields and the basic structure of atmospheres and oceans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
flux emittance, flux absorptance, flux reflectance, flux transmittance, spectral net flux, beam absorptance, azimuthally averaged phase function, collimated incidence, planetary radiative equilibrium, reflecting lower boundary, spherical albedo, shortwave radiative transfer, atmospheric constituent profiles, longwave cloud, planetary media, imbedded source, greenhouse factor, liquid water path, hemispherical fluxes, prototype problem, flux albedo, radiative transfer equation, conservative scattering, radiative transfer schemes, beam transmittance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Applied Optics, Kirchhoff's Law, Exact Twostr, Academic Press, Space Sci, Cambridge University Press, Monte Carlo, Basic Properties of Radiation, Derive Eqs, Selected Papers, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, Clarendon Press, Dover Publications, Inhomogeneous Multilayered Media, Marine Physics, Matrix Eigensolutions, Matrix Formulation of the Discrete-Ordinate Method, Modeling of Shortwave Radiative Effects, Oxford University Press, San Diego New!
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- Radiative Transfer (Dover Books on Physics) by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar on 7 pages
- An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Volume 84, Second Edition (International Geophysics) by K. N. Liou on page 33, page 54, and page 374
- Marine Physics by J. Dera on page 82, page 128, and page 215
- Light and Water: Radiative Transfer in Natural Waters by Curtis D. Mobley on page 82, page 215, and page 333
- Stellar Atmospheres (A Series of books in astronomy and astrophysics) by Dimitri Mihalas on page 54, and page 333
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- 3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres (Physics of Earth and Space Environments) by Alexander Marshak on page 233, page 280, and page 518
- An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Volume 84, Second Edition (International Geophysics) by K. N. Liou on page 349, and Back Matter
- Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces by Shunlin Liang on page 75, and page 397
- Inverse Methods for Atmospheric Sounding : Theory and Practice (Series on Atmospheric Oceanic and Planetary Physics) by Clive D. Rodgers in Back Matter
- Harmful Cyanobacteria (Aquatic Ecology Series) by Jef Huisman on page 199
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