RADIATIVE PROCESSES IN METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY

G.W. PALTRIDGE and C.M.R. PLATT

Penerbit : ELSEVIER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING COMPANY

Tahun : 1976

Atmospheric radiation is a fairly old discipline which forms the basis of any general investigation of climate and which enters also into the study of individual weather processes. Unfortunately, the modern literature on the subject has developed a certain mystique of its own and is not readily under stood by the non-specialist. Apart from the excellent books by Kondratyev, there is a sizeable gap between the single chapter on radiation to be found in a number of text-books on general meteorology and the elegant theoretical treatises on radiative transfer by -Goody and by Chandrasekhar. The gap occurs at just the level required by experimental atmospheric physicists or by meteorologists seeking to take account of radiative processes in their models. The present book is pitched at this level. It is aimed at the physicist rather than the mathematician.

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