Estimates of radiation over clouds and dust aerosols: Optimized number of terms in phase function expansion

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1190-1198

  Ding, Shouguo ^a   Xie, Yu ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b   Liu, Quanhua ^c,d   Baum, Bryan ^e   Hu, Yongxiang ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Clouds; Radiative transfer; Truncation of phase function

Indexed keywords

BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; DUST AEROSOLS; ICE CLOUDS; IN-PHASE; INFRARED SPECTRUM; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; JOINT CENTER; LARGE VIEWING ANGLE; LEGENDRE EXPANSION; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; NUMERICAL ERRORS; PHASE FUNCTIONS; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SCATTERING PROPERTY; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TRANSFER COMPUTATION; TRUNCATION OF PHASE FUNCTION; VISIBLE SPECTRA; WATER CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; DUST; EXPANSION; ICE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; BIDIRECTIONAL REFLECTANCE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD; ESTIMATION METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 67349288119     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.03.032     Document Type: Article

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