The spherical harmonics discrete ordinate method for three-dimensional atmospheric radiative transfer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 429-446

  Evans, K Franklin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SPHERICAL HARMONICS DISCRETE ORDINATE METHOD;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

DISCRETE HARMONICS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

EID: 0032004745     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<0429:TSHDOM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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