• Relevance: Weather/Climate, Chemistry, Remote Sensing
• Short history of light
• Properties of electromagnetic radiation
• Radiometric quantities
• The electromagnetic spectrum
• Boundary conditions: Sun, Earth's surface; reflection and emission
• Radiative transfer in the thermal infrared region: black body radiation,
  local/non-local thermodynamic equilibrium, transmission, radiative transfer,
  application in remote sensing
• Molecular spectroscopy, line-broadening
• Radiative transfer in the UV/Visible: absorption and scattering by particles
• Single scattering properties: Rayleigh, Mie-approximations
• Optical phenomena: rainbows, halos
• Radiative transfer with multiple scattering: why are clouds white?, two-stream
  approximation
• Radiative budget, climate engineering

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