Broken-cloud enhancement of solar radiation absorption

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 878-886

  Byrne, R N ^a   Somerville, R C J ^b   Subasilar B ^b,c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLOUD LAYERS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; NUMERICAL STOCHASTIC; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PATHLENGTHS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS;

ABSORPTION; CLOUDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLOUD ENHANCEMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION ABSORPTION;

EID: 0030456307     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0878:BCEOSR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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