Principles of remote sensing of atmospheric parameters from space

Title
Principles of remote sensing of atmospheric parameters from space
Education material
Date Published
2002
Secondary Title
Meteorological Training Course Lecture Series
Author
R. Rizzi
R. Saunders
Publisher
ECMWF
Keywords
NWP
lecture notes
Abstract
Contents

 

  1. Introduction
  2. Absorption and transmission of monochromatic radiation
  3. Black-body radiation
  4. Emissivity, Kirchoff law and local thermodynamical equilibrium
  5. The equation for radiative transfer
  6. Spectral distribution of radiance leaving the atmosphere
  7. Modelling the interaction
  8. Line shapes and the absorption coefficient
  9. Continuum absorption
  10. Integration over frequency
  11. The direct problem
  12. References

 
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