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The Earth’s atmosphere absorbs, scatters, and emits electromagnetic radiation. Although air molecules are the primary actors in these processes, aerosol particles are also present ubiquitously (see Chapter 1) and modify the radiation field. In fact, this modification constitutes the very physical basis of aerosol remote sensing. Whenever clouds are present, they have a much larger influence on radiation which largely overshadows the aerosol impact. Therefore, in aerosol remote sensing, one often has to limit observations to cloudless conditions and screen cloudy pixels.
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Lenoble, J., Mishchenko, M.I., Herman, M. (2013). Absorption and scattering by molecules and particles. In: Lenoble, J., Remer, L., Tanre, D. (eds) Aerosol Remote Sensing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17725-5_2
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