A three-dimensional multifractal cloud model for radiative transfer calculations in the remote sensing of cloud properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4882, Issue , 2002, Pages 40-51

  Fienberg, Kurt ^a   Nunez, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albedo bias; Cloud inhomogeneity; Cloud property retrieval; Fractals

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WATER;

CLOUD PROPERTIES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0043232821     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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