Fast and accurate radiance calculations using truncation approximation for anisotropic scattering phase functions

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1926-1939

  Iwabuchi, Hironobu ^a   Suzuki, Tsuneaki ^a  

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

Author keywords

Anisotropic scattering; Cloud; Truncation approximation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING; ANTI-SOLAR POINTS; CLOUD DROPLETS; CLOUDY ATMOSPHERES; DELTA FUNCTIONS; FORWARD SCATTERING; LARGE PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO; OPTICAL CONDITION; PHASE FUNCTIONS; RADIANCE CALCULATIONS; SCATTERING ANGLES; SCATTERING EVENTS; SCATTERING ORDER; TRUNCATION APPROXIMATION;

ANISOTROPY; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SCATTERING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANISOTROPY; BORN APPROXIMATION; CLOUD; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 67349190315     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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