New secondary-scattering correction in DISORT with increased efficiency for forward scattering

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2028-2034

  Buras, Robert ^a   Dowling, Timothy ^b   Emde, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

DISORT; Dust; Ice clouds; Intensity correction; Phase function; Radiative transfer; Secondary scattering

Indexed keywords

DISORT; ICE CLOUDS; INTENSITY CORRECTION; PHASE FUNCTIONS; SECONDARY SCATTERING;

CACHE MEMORY; CLOUDS; DUST; ICE PROBLEMS; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

DUST; LIGHT SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 79958770496     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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