Atmospheric Transmission Beer's Law
Atmospheric Transmission Beer's Law
Atmospheric Transmission Beer's Law
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3/31/10Generalization to mixtures of components• Real particles in the atmosphere are complex, and many different gasesand aerosol types are present…β e= ∑ β e,i= ∑ ρ ik e,i= ∑σ e,iN iiii€The total extinction, scatteringand absorption coefficients for amixture of components = sum ofthe corresponding coefficients foreach individual componentPlane parallel approximation• The atmosphere is usually approximated as plane-parallel in atmospheric remotesensing (also called slab geometry)• Ignore horizontal variations and the curvature of the earthHcosθ