Overview
- Assesses and distills decades of development in three-dimensional cloud radiation
- Includes a section on the fundamental physics and computational techniques
- Focuses closely on the impact of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget - an essential aspect of climate modeling - and remote observation of clouds
- This multiauthor work is the only book of its kind that treats this important topic of atmospheric physics at the graduate student level
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments (EARTH)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Climate
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Remote Sensing
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About this book
Developments in three-dimensional cloud radiation over the past few decades are assessed and distilled into this contributed volume. Chapters are authored by subject-matter experts who address a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and anyone interested in cloud-radiation processes in the solar and infrared spectral regions. After two introductory chapters and a section on the fundamental physics and computational techniques, the volume extensively treats two main application areas: the impact of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget, which is an essential aspect of climate modeling; and remote observation of clouds, especially with the advanced sensors on current and future satellite missions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres
Editors: Alexander Marshak, Anthony Davis
Series Title: Physics of Earth and Space Environments
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28519-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-23958-1Published: 22 July 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06303-9Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-28519-9Published: 27 May 2006
Series ISSN: 1610-1677
Series E-ISSN: 1865-0678
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 686
Number of Illustrations: 233 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Atmospheric Sciences