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On the remote sensing and radiative properties of cirrus

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Imagine an evening sky just before sunset as one gazes into the dark blue sky whilst lying in a country field surrounded by bird song, there often appears high in the sky wispy thin fibrous clouds. These innocuous-looking clouds are called cirrus. A non-specialist might be forgiven for thinking that such insubstantial-looking clouds are unimportant to the climate system. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth, as this chapter will demonstrate.

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Baran, A.J. (2007). On the remote sensing and radiative properties of cirrus. In: Kokhanovsky, A.A. (eds) Light Scattering Reviews 2. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68435-0_2

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