Evaluation of four approximate methods for calculating infrared radiances in cloudy atmospheres

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 297-321

  Rathke, Carsten ^a   Fischer, Jürgen ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clouds in the earth's atmosphere; Infrared; Radiative transfer; Scattering approximations

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SPECTROMETERS;

CLOUDY ATMOSPHERES;

INFRARED RADIATION;

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036836298     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(02)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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