Computational cost and accuracy in calculating three-dimensional radiative transfer: Results for new implementations of Monte Carlo and SHDOM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3131-3146

  Pincus, Robert ^a   Evans, K Franklin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING AEROSOL; ACCURACY PARAMETERS; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTING DOMAIN; CONVERGENCE TEST; DISCRETE ORDINATE METHODS; DOWN-WELLING; FLUX DIVERGENCES; MEMORY USE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO ESTIMATES; MONTE CARLO MODEL; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PHASE FUNCTIONS; PIXEL INTENSITIES; SAMPLING NOISE; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TIME-TO-SOLUTION; TRUE ERROR; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

AEROSOLS; ARTS COMPUTING; CLOUDS; COSTS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PIXEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 71949116143     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3137.1     Document Type: Article

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