Radiative Heat Transfer in Earth's Climate & Scattering

This course covers the comprehensive understanding of radiative heat transfer and its significant role in Earth's climate. It delves into the balance between solar radiation absorbed by the Earth and radiation emitted by the Earth to space, maintaining the Earth's mean temperature. The course further explores the impact of the Sun's radiation, the greenhouse effect, and the potential future implications of increased carbon dioxide levels. It also discusses radiative transfer in the Earth's atmosphere, radiative equilibrium, scattering, Radiation Pyrometry, and heat radiation transfer between two surfaces. The course uses the example of temperature variation in the Earth's atmosphere to illustrate these concepts. It also covers the concept of scattering, scattering phenomena, reflectivity and transmittance, complexities of scattering problems, scattering models and techniques, and the Monte Carlo method.