Assessment of the accuracy of the conventional ray-tracing technique: Implications in remote sensing and radiative transfer involving ice clouds

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 146, Issue , 2014, Pages 158-174

  Bi, Lei ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Yi, Bingqi ^a   Baum, Bryan A ^b   Van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan ^c   Iwabuchi, Hironobu ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ice clouds; Light scattering; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CALCULATIONS; CLOUDS; EMBEDDINGS; ICE; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RAY TRACING; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ICE CLOUDS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MODIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAY TRACING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84904757724     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.03.017     Document Type: Article

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