Radiative smoothing in zenith-scattered skylight transmitted through optically thick clouds to the ground

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2949-2952

  Von Savigny, C ^a,b   Funk, O ^b   Platt, U ^b   Pfeilsticker, K ^b,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DIFFUSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION; GEOPHYSICS;

OPTICAL THICKNESS; RADIATIVE SMOOTHING;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; EARTH SCIENCES;

CLOUD; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER;

ASYMMETRY FACTOR; MIE SCATTERING; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PHOTON DIFFUSION; POWER-SPECTRA; SPECTRAL METHODS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0033208561     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900619     Document Type: Article

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