Atmospheric Radiation
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this advanced course on the physics of atmospheric radiation and remote sensing. Topics include the radiative transfer equation with emission and scattering, spectroscopy, Mie theory, and numerical solution methods, along with computer codes used to model these processes. The course also covers inverse problems in remote sensing, focusing on how atmospheric temperature and composition are inferred from radiation measurements. Materials follow MIT's OCW format of lecture notes, problem sets, and course readings drawn from the original MIT course, making it suited to students with a physics or engineering background who want a rigorous treatment of how satellites and instruments sense the atmosphere. No enrollment or certificate is offered; the value is in the primary source materials themselves.