.... From Camara et al., 2003 . This chapter examines light emission. There are only a few ways of making light, the main two categories being (1) thermal radiation, where light emission is related to the temperature of an object, and (2) luminescence, where light emission is related to specific changes...

...This chapter examines the transfer of thermal radiation through atmospheres. The properties of atomic and molecular spectral lines are given. The basic theory of vibrational and rotational energy transitions leading to molecular band absorption of infrared radiation is developed, together...

... of natural phenomena, each apparently unassailable in its natural domain of applicability. However, natural phenomena requiring the simultaneous application of more than one of these formal structures began to demand the attention of physicists. The history of thermal radiation is discussed, with particular...

... and motions, and for analyses of the effect of galaxy formation on the angular distribution of the sea of thermal radiation. This widespread adoption was arguably overenthusiastic, because it was easy to devise other models, less simple to be sure, that fit what we knew at the time. And it was complicated...

...More than half the globe is covered by visible clouds. Clouds control major parts of the Earth’s energy balance, influencing both incoming shortwave solar radiation and outgoing longwave thermal radiation. Latent heating and cooling related to cloud processes modify atmospheric circulation...

... squeezed states parametric down conversion blackbody radiation Bose–Einstein statistics central limit theorem Gaussian statistics thermal radiation shot noise Mandel Q parameter photon bunching Q parameter sub Poissonian photon statistics chaotic radiation density operator normal order mixed...

...Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir. Bruce W. Shore, Oxford University Press (2020). © Bruce W. Shore.DOI : 10.1093/oso/9780198862857.003.0003 Chapter 3 reviews the traditional historical, schoolbook notions of thermal radiation quanta found in the work of Planck...