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An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation

  • 3rd Edition - May 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Yu Gu, Qiang Fu, Ping Yang
  • Language: English

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An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Third Edition is a comprehensive look at radiative transfer and its interaction with the atmosphere, which involves multiple processes that occur over a wide range of spatial-temporal scales. Progress has been made on many fronts in this area and new directions of research continues to emerge. The book will have 9 chapters, starting with the fundamentals of radiative transfer in the atmosphere and followed by its interactions with the atmospheric processes.

An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Third Edition has been extensively revised to address the fundamental study, physical understanding, and quantitative analysis of the interactions of solar and terrestrial radiation with molecules, aerosols, and cloud particles in planetary atmospheres through the theory of radiative transfer and radiometric observations made from the ground, the air, and space. Further, it outlines the scientific foundations that are central to our current understanding of atmospheric radiative transfer and how datasets deduced from satellite remote sensing can be combined with radiation parameterizations in weather and climate models to comprehend radiative transfer interactions, including feedback, with greenhouse gases, cloud, and aerosol.

The 3rd edition will include definitions of radiation-related terms, literature review for each topic, recent developments, applications of radiation to remote sensing, and climate and climate change, as well as authors’ points of view and opinions on future research direction in this field. The new edition also includes a new chapter on aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in climate and climate change.

In addition, readers will have access to a powerful, state-of-the-art computational code, Fu-Liou-Gu radiation scheme, for simulating radiative transfer processes in the atmosphere. This computational code has been officially included in the widely used community Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF), referred to as FLG module, and will be an efficient and excellent educational aid as well as a research tool that can be applied to solve a variety of research problems in atmospheric, climate, and environmental sciences.

Key features

  • Presents a fully updated and revised edition, including new topics in atmospheric radiation and a new chapter on aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in climate and climate change

  • Includes access to the state-of-the-art computational code, Fu-Liou-Gu radiation scheme, for simulating radiative transfer processes in the atmosphere

  • Features examples and hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter

Readership

Graduate students, active researchers, and professors/lecturers interested in atmospheric radiation and its transport in Earth and planetary science

Table of contents

1. Fundamentals of Radiation for Atmospheric Applications

2. Solar Radiation at the Top of the Atmosphere

3. Absorption and Scattering of Solar Radiation in the Atmosphere

4. Thermal Infrared Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere

5. Light Scattering by Atmospheric Particulates

6. Principles of Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres

7. Application of Radiative Transfer Principles to Remote Sensing

8. Radiation and Climate

9. Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions in Climate and Climate Change [new to 3rd edition]

Review quotes

Review of the previous edition:
"Liou's book is broad and rigorous. It covers the topics well from fundamental principles to applications. A student who has mastered the book will be well prepared to start research in atmospheric radiation. A research worker who needs a quick Review of the basic physics behind the state-of-the-art radiative codes used in climate models and remote sensing will find this an invaluable resource."—Yuk L. Yung, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

"The many differences between [the first and second] editions illustrate areas of major progress in the field, as is evidenced in thermal infrared radiative transfer and even in the creations of completely new fields like three-dimensional radiative transfer or light scattering by nonspherical particles. Obviously, the major changes happened not in the theory...but in data quality and completely new measurements (mostly due to new satellite data) with higher accuracy and more reliability. The new edition illustrates this progress well."—Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

"The first edition of this book has become a standard (advanced) text for graduate students and researchers working in the area of atmospheric radiative transfer ...Professor Liou has a leading international standing in studies of the interaction of solar radiation with the Earth's atmosphere and his book reflects his expertise in that area."—Joanna Haigh, Space and Atmospheric Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Yu Gu

Yu Gu is an Associate Director of Operations in the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA. She is an Editor of Geophysical Research Letters and an Associate Editor of Journal of Meteorological Research. Dr. Gu received the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, the AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, the "Jacob A. Bjerknes Memorial Award" in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, the Alan Berman Research Publication Award given by the Department of the Navy, and the UCLA Physical Sciences Centennial Luminary Alumni Award.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles USA

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Ping Yang

Ping Yang is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences. Yang has published 309 journal papers, 11 book chapters, and 3 books. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University and Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 1995. Yang is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Geophysical Union (AGU), and American Meteorological Society (AMS).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA