Monte Carlo simulations of spectral albedo for artificial snowpacks composed of spherical and nonspherical particles

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5310-5319

  Tanikawa, Tomonori ^a   Aoki, Teruo ^b   Hori, Masahiro ^c   Hachikubo, Akihiro ^a   Abe, Osamu ^d   Aniya, Masamu ^e  

^a KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL SNOWPACKS; NEAR-INFRARED REGION; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLES; SPECTRAL ALBEDO;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 33748685972     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.005310     Document Type: Article

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