Scaling algorithms for the calculation of solar radiative fluxes

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 458-469

  Suzuki, Tsuneaki ^a   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^b   Tanaka, Masayuki ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Radiative flux; Radiative transfer; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

DISCRETE ORDINATES METHOD; MULTIPLE SCALING METHOD; SOLAR RADIATIVE FLUX;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 34548224122     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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