Abstract
This chapter describes the fundamentals of radiation transport in general and in the Earth’s atmosphere. The role of atmospheric aerosol and clouds are discussed and the connections between radiation and climate are described. Finally, natural optical phenomena of the atmosphere are discussed.
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Platt, U., Pfeilsticker, K., & Vollmer, M. (2012). Radiation and optics in the atmosphere. In Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics (pp. 1475–1517). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19409-2_23
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