Spectrally invariant approximation within atmospheric radiative transfer

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3094-3111

  Marshak, A ^a   Knyazikhin, Y ^b   Chiu, J C ^c   Wiscombe, W J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Radiation budgets; Radiative transfer; Vegetation; Vegetation atmosphere interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUDY ATMOSPHERES; DISCRETE ORDINATES; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; INVARIANT APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL BASIS; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SANTA BARBARA; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; TOTAL SCATTERING; VEGETATION CANOPY; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION;

REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; VEGETATION; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84855822402     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-060.1     Document Type: Article

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