3D radiative transfer effects in multi-angle/multi-spectral radio-polarimetric signals from a mixture of clouds and aerosols viewed by a non-imaging sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8873, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Davis, Anthony B ^a   Garay, Michael J ^a   Xu, Feng ^a   Qu, Zheng ^a,b   Emde, Claudia ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

1D vector radiative transfer; 3D vector radiative transfer; ACE satellite mission; Aerosol remote sensing; APS; Cloud contamination; Glory satellite mission; PARASOL satellite mission; POLDER; Unresolved cloud adjacency effects

Indexed keywords

3D VECTORS; ADJACENCY EFFECT; AEROSOL REMOTE SENSING; APS; CLOUD CONTAMINATION; POLDER; SATELLITE MISSION; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERICS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; NASA; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84889074148     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2023733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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