Atmosphere Flashcards
1
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Nadir sounding
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satellite signal perpendicular to the surface
2
Q
Limb sounding
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satellite signal crosses atmosphere without hitting earth surface, it’s so that it senses more of one layer
3
Q
solar occultation
A
collecting the unknown - in context of measuring absorption in atmosphere?
4
Q
energy jumps
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5
Q
black body radiation
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6
Q
Energy states - electron hopping
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electron hopping between the 6 energy levels between E0 and E5 (up when energy is absorbed and down when energy is emitted)
7
Q
what are cloud made up of?
A
water droplets attached to an aerosol
8
Q
revise the graph showing what happens when wave hits a particle depending on its size
rayleigh scattering, mie and optical
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