Exoplanet atmospheres/ physical processes Seager,Sara
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TextPublication details: Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010Description: 243ISBN: 9780691146454DDC classification: 551.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 551.5 BAR/A Atmosohere weather and climate/ | 551.5 DAL/A Atmospheric data analysis/ | 551.5 JAM An introduction to dynamic meteorology/ | 551.5 SEA/E Exoplanet atmospheres/ | 551.5 TAR/A The atmosphere/ | 551.5 WAL/A Atmospheric science/ an introductory survey | 551.50284 BRA/A Atmospheric Acoustic Remote Sensing/ |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction --
1.1. Exoplanets from Afar --
1.2. Two Paths to Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres --
1.3. Types of Planets --
2. Intensity and Flux --
2.1. Introduction --
2.2. Intensity --
2.3. Flux and Other Intensity Moments --
2.4. Surface Flux --
2.5. Observed Flux --
2.6. Luminosity and Outgoing Energy --
2.7. Incident Flux and Incident Energy --
2.8. Black Body Intensity and Black Body Flux --
2.9. Lambert Surface --
2.10. Summary --
3. Temperature, Albedos, and Flux Ratios --
3.1. Introduction --
3.2. Energy Balance --
3.3. Planetary Temperatures --
3.4. Planetary Albedos --
3.5. Planet-Star Flux Ratios --
3.6. Planetary Phase Curves --
3.7. Summary --
4. Composition of a Planetary Atmosphere --
4.1. Introduction --
4.2. Composition of Earth's and Jupiter's Atmospheres --
4.3. Chemical Composition. 4.4. Basic Cloud Physics --
4.5. Atmospheric Escape --
4.6. Atmospheric Evolution --
4.7. Summary --
5. Radiative Transfer I: Fundamentals --
5.1. Introduction --
5.2. Opacity --
5.3. Optical Depth --
5.4. Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium --
5.5. The Source Function --
5.6. The Equation of Radiative Transfer --
5.7. Summary --
6. Radiative Transfer II: Solutions --
6.1. Introduction --
6.2. A Conceptual Description of the Emergent Spectrum --
6.3. An Introduction to Line Formation --
6.4. Approximate Solutions to the Plane-Parallel Radiative Transfer Equation --
6.5. Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer --
6.6. Summary --
7. Polarization --
7.1. Introduction --
7.2. Description of Polarized Radiation --
7.3. Polarization Calculations --
7.4. Polarization from Planets --
7.5. Summary --
8. Opacities --
8.1. Introduction --
8.2. Energy Levels in Atoms and Molecules --
8.3. Molecular Absorption Cross Sections. 8.4. Rayleigh Scattering --
8.5. Condensate Opacities --
8.6. Summary --
9. Vertical Thermal Structure of a Planetary Atmosphere --
9.1. Introduction --
9.2. Earth's Vertical Atmospheric Structure --
9.3. Hydrostatic Equilibrium and the Pressure Scale Height --
9.4. Surface Temperature for a Simplified Atmosphere --
9.5. Convection versus Radiation --
9.6. The Radiative Equilibrium Temperature Profile --
9.7. The Adiabatic Temperature Profile --
9.8. The One-Dimensional Temperature-Pressure Profile --
9.9. Temperature Retrieval --
9.10. Summary --
10. Atmospheric Circulation --
10.1. Introduction --
10.2. Radiative and Advective Timescales --
10.3. Large-Scale Flow and Patterns --
10.4. Atmospheric Dynamics Equations --
10.5. Connection to Observations --
10.6. Summary --
11. Atmospheric Biosignatures --
11.1. Introduction --
11.2. Earth's Biosignatures --
11.3. The Ideal Biosignature Gas --
11.4. Prospects --
11.5. Summary
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