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