The Equation of Radiative Transfer
The equation of radiative transfer simply says that as a beam of radiation travels, it loses energy to absorption, gains energy by emission, and redistributes energy by scattering. The differential form of the equation for radiative transfer is:
where is the emission coefficient, is the scattering cross section, and is the absorption cross section.
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