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Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)

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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.

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.

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!

Excellent, clear textbook! Very valuable for those who wish to discuss climate change intelligently. Extremely valuable for those who are attarcted to the improbable hypotheses of Svensmark.