Abstract
Atmospheric extinction, in its broadest sense, is the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a result of absorption and scattering by the Earth’s atmosphere (see Fig. 6.1). Both processes reduce the radiant flux from a given beam of light (about one sixth of the amount of perpendicularly incident light is extinguished in the visible domain).
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Sterken, C., Manfroid, J. (1992). Atmospheric extinction. In: Astronomical Photometry. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 175. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2476-8_6
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