The impact of a non-uniform land surface on the radiation environment over an Arctic fjord - A study with a 3D radiative transfer model for stratus clouds over the Hornsund fjord, Spitsbergen

Oceanologia

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 509-544

  Rozwadowska, Anna ^a   Górecka, Izabela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Hornsund; Monte Carlo modeling; Nadir radiance; Solar flux anomaly due to the uniform surface assumption; Solar radiation; Spatial variability; Spitsbergen; Stratus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; FJORD; MODIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NADIR; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRATUS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARCTIC; HORNSUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84869803785     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5697/oc.54-4.509     Document Type: Article

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