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This screen---Intro & Objectives
4.1 - Radiation and the Atmosphere
4.1.1 What is light?
4.1.2 What is the nature of light radiated by the Sun?
4.1.3 How does light move through the atmosphere?
4.1.4 What is the nature of the light radiated away from the Earth into space?
4.2 - What is the nature of light that reaches Earth's surface?
4.2.1Incident Radiation at The Top of The Atmosphere
4.2.2Variations in Insolation Due to Earth-Sun Distance
4.2.3Variations in Solar Insolation Due to Solar Zenith Angle
4.2.4Key Points about Radiation that Reaches Earth's Atmosphere
4.2.5Interactions Between Light and Matter in the Atmosphere
4.2.6Atomic Structure and the Energy of an Atom
4.2.7Absorption and Emission of Photons by Atoms
4.2.8The Energy of a Molecule
4.2.9Key Points about The Interaction of Light and Matter
4.2.10Absorption in the Atmosphere
4.2.11Basic Ozone Photochemistry
4.2.12Atmospheric Scattering - Some Basics
4.2.13Rayleigh Scattering and Mie Scattering
4.2.14Single and Multiple Scattering
4.2.15Key Points about Atmospheric Scattering
4.3 - Blackbody Radiation
4.3.1 Introduction
4.3.2 Examples of Blackbody Radiation
4.3.3 The Spectrum of Blackbody Radiation
4.3.4 Blackbody Emissions and Temperature
4.3.5 Absorptivity and Emissivity
4.3.6 The Sun and Earth as Blackbodies
4.3.7 Key Points about Radiant Energy and Blackbody Radiation
4.4.1a Remote Sensing
4.4.1b Forward Modeling and the Inverse Problem
4.4.2a Instrument Calibration
4.4.2b Scattering and Attenuation
4.4.3 Beer-Bouger-Lambert Law
4.4.4 Ozone Measurements
4.5 - How to measure Radiation (flux, etc)
4.5.1 Energy
4.5.2 Radiant Flux
4.5.3 Irradiance
4.5.4 Radiance
4.5.5 Spectral radiant flux, radiance, and irradiance
4.6 - References
4.7 - Questions