Impact of gas absorption and surface albedo on cloud radiative smoothing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Schroeder, Marc ^a   Bennartz, Ralf ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Gas absorption; Radiation; Scale break; Three dimensional radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; GAS ABSORPTION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTONS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CLOUDS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FOURIER SERIES; HEAT RADIATION; INFRARED DEVICES; POWER SPECTRUM; SOLAR RADIATION;

RADIATIVE PROCESSES; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; PHOTON TRANSPORT; SCALE BREAK; SPATIAL POWER SPECTRUMS; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; SURFACE ALBEDO; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

CLOUDS; GAS ABSORPTION;

ADSORPTION; ALBEDO; CLOUD; GAS;

EID: 0037828507     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016523     Document Type: Article

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