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Prerequisites

Physical Chemistry (5.61), Advanced Calculus for Engineers (18.075), or permission of instructor

Topics

• Radiation in climate system
• Physics of radiation
• Molecular spectroscopy
• Equation of radiative transfer
• Modeling atmospheric transmission and emission
• Scattering of radiation by molecules and particles
• Multiple scattering
• Remote sensing

Required Textbook

Liou, Kuo-Nan. An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation. 2nd ed. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780124514515.

Reference Textbook

Goody, R., and Y. Yung. Atmospheric Radiation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195102918.

Grading

Based on grades from exercises (weighted by degree of difficulty).