Jacqueline Lenoble Knihy

The sessions are arranged into four major the interaction between clouds and radiation, including the measurements of the cloud radiative properties and the observation of clouds from space; climate and radiation, concerning the observation of the radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere and at the surface, and the modelling of climate; basic radiative processes, with emphasis on the spectroscopic problems and the radiation field in the middle atmosphere; and remote sensing, both passive and active, of the atmospheric constituents. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

This book gives a much needed explanation of the basic physical principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing, and presents all the instruments and retrieval algorithms in a homogenous manner. The editors provide, for the first time, an easy path from theory to practical algorithms in one easily accessible volume, making the connection between theoretical radiative transfer and individual practical solutions to retrieve aerosol information from remote sensing, and providing the specifics and intercomparison of all current and historical retrieval methods.