Four-stream spherical harmonic expansion approximation for solar radiative transfer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1174-1186

  Li, J ^a   Ramaswamy, V ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; FOUR STREAM METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0030466580     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<1174:FSSHEA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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