Underpining concepts and background

This section explains some concepts that are used implicitly in ARTS. It is useful to understand how different components of ARTS are intended to work together. It is a non-exhaustive overview of these concepts, and it is not intended to cover implementation details.

The subsections below are given in no particular order.

• Absorption
  • The Stokes Vector
  • Propagation Matrix
  • Sources of Absorption
• Radiative Transfer
  • A single step
  • Multiple steps
  • Partial derivatives