An explanation for the effect of clouds over snow on the top-of-atmosphere bidirectional reflectance

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Hudson, Stephen R ^a   Warren, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLOUDS; LIGHT REFLECTION; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; CLOUD; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 36849021696     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008541     Document Type: Article

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