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