Accounting for unresolved clouds in a 1D infrared radiative transfer model. Part I: Solution for radiative transfer, including cloud scattering and overlap

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 3302-3320

  Li, Jiangnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLOUDS; INFRARED RADIATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CLOUD SCATTERING;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

CLOUD; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING;

EID: 0036934251     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3302:AFUCIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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