Abstract

For a realistic model of a planetary atmosphere, a gradient-flux relation for both continuum and continuum-plus-spectral-line frequencies is derived. It provides the thermal-emission profile of the atmosphere, independent of scattering and of polarization. The relation also provides an experimental criterion for the existence of radiative equilibrium across the atmosphere.

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Absorption Profile of a Planetary Atmosphere: A Proposal for a Scattering Independent Determination

A. L. Fymat and J. Lenoble
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Optical pulses in atmospheric turbulence

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Smith-Purcell radiation from a line charge moving parallel to a reflection grating with rectangular profile

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Solutions of a modified transport equation for multiple scattering in suspensions of highly anisotropic scatterers*

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