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Kokhanovsky, A.A. (2006). Asymptotic radiative transfer. In: Kokhanovsky, A.A. (eds) Light Scattering Reviews. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37672-0_6

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