Clouds affect the climate of the Earth, and they are an important factor in the weather. Therefore, their radiative properties must be understood in great detail. This book summarizes current knowledge on cloud optical properties, for example their ability to absorb, transmit, and reflect light, which depends on the clouds' geometrical and microphysical characteristics such as sizes of droplets and crystals, their shapes, and structures. In addition, problems related to the image transfer through clouds and cloud remote sensing are addressed in this book in great detail.
This book can be an important source of information on theoretical cloud optics for cloud physicists, meteorologists and optical engineers.
All basic ideas of optics as related to scattering of light in clouds (e.g. Mie theory and radiative transfer) are considered in a self consistent way. Consequently, the book can also be a useful textbook to newcomers to the field.
| ISBN: | 9789048170012 |
| Publication date: | 25th November 2010 |
| Author: | Alexander A Kokhanovsky |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 276 pages |
| Series: | Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library |
| Genres: |
The environment Cybernetics and systems theory Laser physics Mathematical physics Applied physics Meteorology and climatology |
Clouds affect the climate of the Earth, and they are an important factor in the weather. Therefore, their radiative properties must be understood in great detail.
Cloud Optics features in the following genres: The environment, Cybernetics and systems theory, Laser physics, Mathematical physics, Applied physics, Meteorology and climatology
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Cloud Optics was written by Alexander A Kokhanovsky and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Netherlands
Cloud Optics has 276 pages
Yes it is part of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library series