the simplicity of the proposed model is partially obscured.
5. CONCLUDING REMARKS
The radiative field in the atmosphere, considered as an absorbing and
emitting medium, is determined. Being the radiative phenomena mainly restricted
to the troposphere, the atmosphere is modelled by assuming the volumetric absor-
ption coefficient and the temperature to depend on altitude exponentially and
linearly, respectively. The model is so described by four parameters : two of
them can be easily measured at ground level, the other ones can be obtained by
using real or estimated meteorological data. A preliminary statistical control
of the exponential law hypothesis on the basis of real meteorological data
seems to prove a good adequacy of the proposed model. Some deviations which
occur in the first two kilometers of the atmosphere are due to local perturba-
tions of the thermodynamic parameters, that cannot be taken into account by the
present simplified model. An improvement of accuracy can be obtained by simply
applying the method twice to two distinct layers of the troposphere, but this
procedure partially obscures the simplicity of the proposed method.
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