Do the statements refer to absorption, extinction, scattering, reflection or refraction? Set each gap to the option that best applies to the statement opposite it.
About this exercise type...| _ | Incident radiation is captured and re-emitted at the same wavelength. |
| _ | The Lambertian albedo is special case of this process. |
| _ | Incident radiation is retained and re-emitted at a longer wavelength. |
| _ | The amount of this that takes place in a gas in a particular wavelength range is expressed as the product of the optical path length, the density and the absorption cross-section. |
| _ | The amount of this that takes place in a gas in a particular wavelength range is expressed in terms of the number and size of particles or molecules in the gas. |
| _ | This process can be termed elastic or inelastic. |
| _ | This term describes all types of losses during radiative transfer. |
| _ | This process causes us to see the sky as blue. |
| _ | This process is the mechanism behind the phenomenon of sea glint. |
| _ | This process is the mechanism behind the phenomenon of the rainbow. |
| _ | This process causes sunsets to be red. |
| _ | This process causes the local sunset to be later than the astronomical sunset. |
| _ | In this process the intensity of light in any particular direction is described by a phase function. |
| _ | This process occurs at the interface of layers of atmosphere with different optical density. |
| _ | This process does not change the wavelength of incident photons but may or may not change their energies. |
| _ | This process is described by the Beer-Lambert Law. |
| _ | In this process photons emerge at an angle that is equal and opposite to their incident angle. |
| _ | As a result of this process photons have the same wavelength but not the same direction as incident photons. |
| _ | Some types of this effect can be used to measure turbidity in water. |
| _ | As a result of this process in particular species Fraunhofer lines are found in the spectrum of solar radiation. |
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