Cloud 3D effects on broadband heating rate profiles: I. Model simulation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 292-303

  Song, Lei ^a,b   Min, Qilong ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cloud 3D effects; Heating rate profiles; Monte Carlo radiative transfer model

Indexed keywords

3D EFFECTS; 3D STRUCTURE; CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CRITICAL RADIUS; HEATING RATE PROFILES; INCIDENT ANGLES; MODEL SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; OCEAN CIRCULATION; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RATE PROFILES; STATISTICAL AVERAGE; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLOUDS; HEATING; HEATING RATE; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLOUD; HEATING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78649502270     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.06.020     Document Type: Article

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