Recent developments in the line-by-line modeling of outgoing longwave radiation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 446-457

  Buehler, S A ^a   von Engeln, A ^a   Brocard, E ^a   John, V O ^a   Kuhn, T ^b   Eriksson, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Continua; Heating rates; Humidity; Infrared; Jacobians; OLR; Outgoing longwave radiation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATOR; HEATING RATES; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR); RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

SOLAR RADIATION;

HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 30344448592     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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