Interpreting shortwave albedo-transmittance plots: True or apparent anomalous absorption?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2023-2026

  Barker, Howard W ^a   Li, Zhanqing ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATION EFFECTS; SOLAR RADIATION; ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

3D MONTE CARLO; ANOMALOUS ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCE; CLOUD GEOMETRY; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; HORIZONTAL TRANSPORT; NONUNIFORM CLOUDS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

ANOMALOUS CLOUD ABSORPTION; SHORTWAVE ALBEDO TRANSMITTANCE PLOTS;

ALBEDO;

EID: 0031200762     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02019     Document Type: Article

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