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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by John G. Webster, Halit Eren
February 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1921 pages
82h 13m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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71.1 Introduction
71.1.1 Importance of Airborne MeasurementsofElectromagnetic
Radiation in the Atmosphere
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climate phenomena on Earth (Sellers, 1965). All biological life depends on the energy provided by solar
radiation. Almost every motion of air in the atmosphere or of water in the oceans and numerous chemical
processes within the atmosphere are powered by solar radiative energy. If the Sun would hypothetically
be switched o, then p
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