Local optical characteristics of mixed clouds: Simple parameterizations

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-48

  Kokhanovsky, A A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorption; Mixed clouds; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING;

MIE THEORY; MIXED CLOUDS; NONSPHERICAL ICE CRYSTALS; SIMPLE PARAMETERIZATION;

CLOUDS;

ABSORPTION; CLOUD; DROPLET; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; ICE CRYSTAL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIE THEORY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 33846881795     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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