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1 Basic Solar and Planetary Properties |
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1 | (12) |
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1.1.2 The Solar Cycle, Variability |
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3 | (1) |
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1.1.3 Reference Solar Irradiance |
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3 | (1) |
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1.1.4 Limb Darkening and Brightening |
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4 | (1) |
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1.2 Properties of Earth and its Atmosphere |
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5 | (5) |
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1.2.1 Earth's Orbit and the Seasons |
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5 | (1) |
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1.2.2 Hydrostatic Equilibrium |
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5 | (1) |
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1.2.3 Albedo and Spectral Reflectance |
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6 | (1) |
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1.2.4 Basic Structure and Variability of Earth's Atmosphere |
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7 | (1) |
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1.2.5 Adiabatic Lapse Rate |
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8 | (1) |
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1.2.6 Composition of Earth's Atmosphere |
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8 | (2) |
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1.3 Other Atmospheres in the Solar System |
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10 | (1) |
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10 | (3) |
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References and Further Reading |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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2 Elements of Math and Physics |
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13 | (4) |
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2.1 Units for Radiation; Wavelengths and Frequencies |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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2.3 Lambertian Reflectance and Emission |
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15 | (1) |
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2.4 The Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function |
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16 | (1) |
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3 Blackbody Radiation, Boltzmann Statistics, Temperature, and Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
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17 | (9) |
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3.1 Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
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17 | (1) |
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3.1.1 Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (2) |
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20 | (6) |
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3.3.1 Relation of Intensity with Wavelength and Temperature (Planck's Law) |
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21 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Radiation Constants |
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21 | (1) |
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3.3.3 The Rayleigh-Jeans Limit |
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22 | (1) |
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3.3.4 Antenna Temperature, Noise Temperature, System Temperature |
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23 | (1) |
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3.3.5 Emissivity, Reflectivity, Kirchoff's Law |
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23 | (1) |
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3.3.6 Relation between Flux Density and Temperature (Stefan-Boltzmann Constant) |
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23 | (1) |
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3.3.7 Relation between Maximum Intensity and Temperature (Wien's Law) |
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24 | (1) |
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References and Further Reading |
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24 | (1) |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (9) |
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26 | (1) |
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4.2 The Basic Equation of Radiative Transfer |
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27 | (8) |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (2) |
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5 Spectroscopy Fundamentals |
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35 | (19) |
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5.1 Einstein A and B Coefficients |
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35 | (1) |
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5.2 Rotational Spectroscopy |
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36 | (7) |
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37 | (5) |
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5.2.2 Polyatomic Molecules |
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42 | (1) |
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5.3 Vibrational Spectroscopy |
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43 | (5) |
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43 | (4) |
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5.3.2 Polyatomic Molecules |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (3) |
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5.5 Electronic Spectroscopy |
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51 | (3) |
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5.5.1 Electronic Orbital Angular Momentum, Electronic Spin Angular Momentum |
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51 | (1) |
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5.5.2 Electronic Transitions |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (9) |
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6.1 Gaussian Line Shape, Doppler Broadening |
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54 | (1) |
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6.2 Lorentzian Line Shape (Lifetime/Collisional Broadening) |
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55 | (3) |
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6.2.1 Lifetime Broadening |
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56 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Collisional (Pressure) Broadening |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (1) |
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6.4 The HITRAN Molecular Spectroscopic Database |
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59 | (4) |
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60 | (1) |
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60 | (3) |
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63 | (14) |
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63 | (1) |
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7.2 Polarization in Scattering |
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64 | (2) |
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7.2.1 The Stokes Vector and the Polarization Ellipse |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (4) |
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7.3.1 Depolarization: The Inelastic Raman Scattering Component |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (3) |
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7.5 Additional Scattering Considerations |
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73 | (4) |
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7.5.1 Non-spherical Particles |
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73 | (1) |
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7.5.2 The Angstrom Exponent |
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7.5.3 Expansion in Legendre Polynomials |
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74 | (1) |
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75 | (2) |
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77 | (10) |
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8.1 Simple One-layer Model |
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77 | (1) |
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8.2 Gray Atmosphere Models |
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78 | (2) |
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8.3 Wavelength-specific and Altitude-dependent Absorption and Emission |
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80 | (1) |
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8.4 Earth's Energy Budget |
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81 | (3) |
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84 | (3) |
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85 | (1) |
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85 | (2) |
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9 Modeling Radiative Transfer |
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87 | (10) |
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87 | (1) |
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9.2 Plane-parallel Scattering Formulation |
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87 | (2) |
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9.3 Surface Reflectance and Albedo |
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89 | (1) |
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9.4 The Two-stream Approximation |
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90 | (2) |
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9.5 Replacing the Multiple-scattering Radiative Transfer Integrodifferential Equations by a System of Linear Equations |
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92 | (5) |
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9.5.1 Expansion of Azimuth Dependence |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (1) |
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95 | (2) |
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10 Principles of Atmospheric Remote Sensing Measurements |
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97 | (29) |
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97 | (1) |
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10.1.1 Limb, Nadir, and Zenith Measurement Geometries |
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97 | (1) |
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10.1.2 Absorption, Emission, and Scattering Measurement Modes |
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98 | (1) |
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10.2 Viewing and Sampling |
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98 | (3) |
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10.2.1 Spectral Resolution |
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99 | (1) |
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10.2.2 The Sampling Theorem |
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99 | (2) |
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101 | (2) |
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10.3.1 Gaussian Description of Noise |
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101 | (2) |
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10.3.2 Noise Temperatures |
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103 | (1) |
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103 | (5) |
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10.4.1 Microwave and Millimeter-wave Instruments |
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103 | (1) |
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10.4.2 Dispersive Instruments |
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104 | (1) |
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10.4.3 Fourier Transform Spectrometers (Michelson Interferometers) |
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105 | (3) |
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10.5 Ground-based Remote Sensing |
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108 | (1) |
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10.6 The Geometry of Limb Remote Sensing |
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109 | (1) |
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10.7 Nadir Satellite Remote Sensing |
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110 | (16) |
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10.7.1 Aerosol Remote Sensing |
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110 | (1) |
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10.7.2 Trace Gas Remote Sensing |
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111 | (3) |
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10.7.3 Calculation of the AMF |
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114 | (2) |
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10.7.4 Vertical Sensitivity |
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116 | (1) |
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10.7.5 Vertical Variation of Species |
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116 | (1) |
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10.7.6 Overview of Nadir-viewing Satellites |
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117 | (5) |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (1) |
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126 | (13) |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (2) |
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128 | (2) |
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11.4 The Levenberg--Marquardt Method |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (3) |
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11.5.1 Weighting Functions |
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131 | (1) |
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11.5.2 Contribution Functions |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (2) |
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11.6 Twomey--Tikhonov Regularization |
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134 | (1) |
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11.7 Correlated Parameters |
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135 | (4) |
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References and Further Reading |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (2) |
Appendix A 1976 US Standard Atmosphere |
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139 | (1) |
Appendix B Physical Constants and Physical Data |
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140 | (1) |
Appendix C Useful Formulas |
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141 | (2) |
Index |
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