A complete revision of Goody's classic 1964 work, this volume offers a systematic discussion of atmospheric radiation processes that today are at the center of worldwide study and concern. It deals with the ways in which incident solar radiation is transformed into scattered and thermal radiation, and the thermodynamic consequences for the Earth's gaseous envelope, identifying aspects of the interaction between radiation and atmospheric motions as the central theme for atmospheric radiation studies. As a complete treatment of physical and mathematical foundations, the text assumes no prior knowledge of atmospheric physics. The theoretical discussion is systematic, and can therefore be applied with minor extension to any planetary atmosphere.
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"This is a much-improved volume that builds on the successful style of the original while presenting an impressive array of new material." --Science
"A classic in the field . . . An excellent text for the advanced student and highly useful reference for the researcher." --Bulletin American Meteorological Society
"Could not have been produced at a better time . . . . This is a much-improved volume that builds on the successful style of the original while presenting an impressive array of new material . . . . Provides an admirable balance between the mathematical techniques of radiative transfer and the physics of line formation by gases of relevance to the terrestrial atmosphere . . . . As a rigorous, advanced text this book can be very highly recommended."
--Science
"The new edition of the classical monograph . . . saved all advantages of its predecessor and added a considerable amount of new material, reflecting the development of atmospheric radiation science and its applications during the last 5 years . . . . Highly recommended for all libraries related to atmospheric sciences, including those which have the first edition. It is a useful handbook and reference for all students and scientists involved in atmospheric
sciences." --Pure and Applied Geophysics
"R.M. Goody's text, Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis, has been a classic in the field since its publication in 1961 . . . . This second edition, with Professor Yung as its coauthor, is such a thorough revision that it constitutes a new book . . . . Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis is an excellent text for the advanced student and highly useful reference for the researcher in radiation . . . . This second edition of
Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis should endure as a classic text and reference for another three decades." --Bulletin American Meteorological Society
"[A] classic book, 'Atmospheric radiation . . .' [was] published in 1964 by Oxford University Press. For the first time, this book integrated under one cover the fundamentals of radiative transfer, the theory of gaseous absorption, an authoritative treatment of band models and absorption spectra, radiative equilibrium and dynamic interactions, as well as some aspects of scattering. For many years it served as a guide for graduate students and researchers alike
who were interested in the fundamental radiative transfer principles and in the application of such principles to remote sensing. This book was revised and updated in 1989, with the discussion of
atmospheric scattering topics strengthened, and has already been widely cited in refereed papers."--Eos
