A global view of one-dimensional solar radiative transfer through oceanic water clouds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Di Girolamo, Larry ^a   Liang, Lusheng ^a   Platnick, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

1KM RESOLUTION; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUDY ATMOSPHERES; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GLOBAL VIEW; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MONITORING SYSTEM; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-VIEWS; OCEANIC WATERS; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY; STRATIFORM CLOUDS; SUN ANGLE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEAWATER; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77957560666     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044094     Document Type: Article

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