A fast infrared radiative transfer model for overlapping clouds

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-459

  Niu, Jianguo ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Huang, Hung Lung ^b   Davies, James E ^b   Li, Jun ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^c   Hu, Yong X ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Fast code; Infrared radiative transfer; Single scattering properties of cloud

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; GAS ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES (BTD); DISCRETE ORDINATES RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL (DISORT); INFRARED RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

INFRARED RADIATION;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING;

EID: 33750191492     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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