12.842 | Fall 2008 | Graduate

Climate Physics and Chemistry

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Radiative Transfer

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Lecture presentation on radiative transfer, shortwave absorption, shortwave reflection, longwave absorption, Planck’s law, absorption and emission in a gas, principal atmospheric absorbers, radiative equilibrium, pressure distribution in atmosphere at rest, buoyancy and entropy, and the adiabatic lapse rate.

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