Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Basic Properties of Radiation, Atmospheres, and Oceans
- Chapter 2 Basic State Variables and the Radiative Transfer Equation
- Chapter 3 Basic Scattering Processes
- Chapter 4 Absorption by Solid, Aqueous, and Gaseous Media
- Chapter 5 Principles of Radiative Transfer
- Chapter 6 Formulation of Radiative Transfer Problems
- Chapter 7 Approximate Solutions of Prototype Problems
- Chapter 8 Accurate Numerical Solutions of Prototype Problems
- Chapter 9 Shortwave Radiative Transfer
- Chapter 10 Transmission in Spectrally Complex Media
- Chapter 11 Radiative Transfer in Nongray Media
- Chapter 12 The Role of Radiation in Climate
- Appendices
- Index
Chapter 6 - Formulation of Radiative Transfer Problems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Basic Properties of Radiation, Atmospheres, and Oceans
- Chapter 2 Basic State Variables and the Radiative Transfer Equation
- Chapter 3 Basic Scattering Processes
- Chapter 4 Absorption by Solid, Aqueous, and Gaseous Media
- Chapter 5 Principles of Radiative Transfer
- Chapter 6 Formulation of Radiative Transfer Problems
- Chapter 7 Approximate Solutions of Prototype Problems
- Chapter 8 Accurate Numerical Solutions of Prototype Problems
- Chapter 9 Shortwave Radiative Transfer
- Chapter 10 Transmission in Spectrally Complex Media
- Chapter 11 Radiative Transfer in Nongray Media
- Chapter 12 The Role of Radiation in Climate
- Appendices
- Index
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- Information
- Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean , pp. 170 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999