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title: 'Vol II 13 Technical Detail'
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date: '2026-07-30'
description: 'Additional Content: Volume Two: Technical Background Topics of a more technical nature are contained in Chapter 13 (pp 400-450) Temperature with no Atmosphere 400 Radiation fundamentals 401 Black Body Radiation (due to Planck) 401 The Kelvin temperature scale 403 Emissivity 403 Stefan …'
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# Additional Content: Volume Two: Technical Background

Topics of a more technical nature are contained in Chapter 13 (pp 400-450)

- Temperature with no Atmosphere 400
- Radiation fundamentals 401
- Black Body Radiation (due to Planck) 401
- The Kelvin temperature scale 403
- Emissivity 403
- Stefan Boltzmann Law 405
- Vibrational Absorption (& Relaxation) of infrared by greenhouse gas molecules 407
- Density of molecules in a particular volume of space 408
- Effective Molecular Vibrational Absorption Cross Section 409
- Atmospheric Abundance and effective cross section 411
- Schwarzschild’s Radiative Transfer Equation 416
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics 417
- Spectral Analysis 418
- Saturation and Overlap 420
- Clear Sky Confusion 421
- Zhong and Haigh 422
- W. A. van Wijngaarden and W Happer 426
- Various Cycles of the Earth 427
- The water cycle 427
- The carbon cycle – Carbon Dioxide and Methane 430
- The Atmosphere and its Greenhouse gas Components 432
- Water (H₂O) 434
- Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) 435
- Methane (CH₄) 438
- Nitrous Oxide N₂O 442
- Ozone (O₃) 445
- Köppen Climate Classification 450

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