Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean
2nd Edition
Published on 13. July 2017
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-107-09473-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new and completely updated edition gives a detailed description of radiative transfer processes at a level accessible to advanced students. The volume gives the reader a basic understanding of global warming and enhanced levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation caused by ozone depletion. It teaches the basic physics of absorption, scattering and emission processes in turbid media, such as the atmosphere and ocean, using simple semi-classical models. The radiative transfer equation, including multiple scattering, is formulated and solved for several prototype problems, using both simple approximate and accurate numerical methods. In addition, the reader has access to a powerful, state-of-the-art computational code for simulating radiative transfer processes in coupled atmosphere-water systems including snow and ice. This computational code can be regarded as a powerful educational aid, but also as a research tool that can be applied to solve a variety of research problems in environmental sciences.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
30 Halftones, black and white; 68 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1184 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-09473-4 (9781107094734)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Knut Stamnes | Gary E. Thomas | Jakob J. Stamnes
Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean
E-Book
06/2017
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€100.99
Available for download
Previous edition
Gary E. Thomas | Knut Stamnes
Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean
Book
01/2002
Cambridge University Press
€113.88
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Persons
Knut Stamnes is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics and Director of the Light and Life Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey. His research interests include radiative transfer, ocean optics and remote sensing and he has published over 200 papers and co-authored two textbooks: this one and Radiative Transfer in Coupled Environmental Systems (2015). He is a fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), a member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Gary E. Thomas is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Science and Senior Research Associate at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests are in the remote sensing of Earth and planetary atmospheres. He has published over 150 papers in various fields of planetary and atmospheric science. He taught the graduate course Radiative Transfer at the University of Colorado over a period of thirty years. Jakob J. Stamnes is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics and Technology at Universitetet i Bergen, Norway and CEO of Balter Medical, Norway. His research interests include wave propagation, radiative transfer, ocean optics and remote sensing. He has published over 190 research papers. He is the author of Waves in Focal Regions (1986) and co-authored Radiative Transfer in Coupled Environmental Systems (2015). He is a fellow of the Optical Society (OSA), and a member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Content
1. Basic properties of radiation, atmospheres, and oceans; 2. Basic state variables and the radiative transfer equation; 3. Basic scattering processes; 4. Absorption by solid, aqueous, and gaseous media; 5. Principles of radiative transfer; 6. Formulation of radiative transfer problems; 7. Approximation solutions of prototype problems; 8. The role of radiation in climate; 9. Accurate numerical solutions of prototype problems; 10. Shortwave radiative transfer in the atmosphere and ocean; Appendix A. Nomenclature: glossary of symbols; Appendix B. Physical constants; Appendix C. Ocean optics nomenclature; Appendix D. Reflectance and transmittance at an interface; References; Index; Online appendices: Appendix E. A primer on absorption and scattering opacity; Appendix F. Elementary concepts; Appendix G. Derivation of the Planck radiation law; Appendix H. The two-level atom; Appendix I. Non-gray inhomogeneous media; Appendix J. Reciprocity for the bidirectional reflectance; Appendix K. Harmonic electromagnetic plane waves; Appendix L. Representations of polarized light; Appendix M. Spherical shell geometry; Appendix N. The streaming term in spherical geometry; Appendix O. Isolation of the Azimuth-dependence; Appendix P. Scaling transformation for anisotropic scattering; Appendix Q. Reciprocity, duality, and effects of surface reflection; Appendix R. Probabilistic aspects of radiative transfer; Appendix S. Details and derivations; Appendix T. Inherent optical properties; Appendix U. Model atmospheres.