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Kuo-Nan Liou
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 289
Citations - 20734
Kuo-Nan Liou is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radiative transfer & Cirrus. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 289 publications receiving 19025 citations. Previous affiliations of Kuo-Nan Liou include Goddard Institute for Space Studies & University of Utah.
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Four-stream Radiative Transfer Parameterization Scheme in a Land Surface Process Model
TL;DR: In this paper, a four-stream solar radiative transfer model was proposed to obtain analytic solutions of the basic equation of canopy radiative transfers, which can be easily applied to improve the parameterization of land surface radiation in climate models.
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Variational estimates of black carbon emissions in the western United States
Y. H. Mao,Qinbin Li,Daven K. Henze,Zhe Jiang,Dylan B. A. Jones,Monika Kopacz,Cenlin He,Ling Qi,M. Gao,WeiMin Hao,Kuo-Nan Liou +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, Mao et al. proposed a method to estimate the amount of greenhouse gas in the air and showed that it can be used to predict the global average greenhouse gas levels.
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Intensity and polarization of dust aerosols over polarized anisotropic surfaces
Kuo-Nan Liou,Y. Takano,Ping Yang +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of surface polarization on the intensity and linear polarization patterns of sunlight in an atmosphere containing a dust aerosol layer is investigated by means of the adding principle for vector radiative transfer in which the surface is treated as a layer without transmission.
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Exploration of the remote sounding of infrared cooling rates due to water vapor
Kuo-Nan Liou,Yongkang Xue +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the feasibility of deriving atmospheric infrared cooling rates by direct inversion of radiances observed by satellites from space, and show that it is necessary to combine radiances from narrow channels with radiances averaged over spectral bands.
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Some Examples of the Effects of Clouds and Precipitation on the Temperature Profile Retrieval for DMSP SSM/T Microwave Sounders
TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary investigation of temperature retrieval utilizing the Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Passive Microwave Temperature Sounder (SSM/T) data under clear, cloudy and precipitating atmosphere conditions is reported.