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An Introduction to Radiative Transfer for Geophysicists

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Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows

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Spiegel, E.A. (2008). An Introduction to Radiative Transfer for Geophysicists. In: Weiss, J.B., Provenzale, A. (eds) Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75215-8_4

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