The influence of horizontal inhomogeneity on radiative characteristics of clouds: An asymptotic case study

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART I, 2003, Pages 817-825

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Clouds; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CALCULATIONS; CLOUDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ASYMPTOTIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER THEORY; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD OPTICS; COLUMN APPROXIMATION; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; HORIZONTAL INHOMOGENEITY;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0038611019     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.811075     Document Type: Article

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