Shepard A. Clough

TL;DR: A rapid and accurate radiative transfer model (RRTM) for climate applications has been developed and the results extensively evaluated as discussed by the authors, which is performed using the correlated-k method: the k distributions are attained directly from the LBLRTM line-byline model, which connects the absorption coefficients used by RRTM to high-resolution radiance validations done with observations.

TL;DR: In this article, the AER line-by-line (LBL) models were compared with the RTMIP line-By-line results in the longwave and shortwave for clear sky scenarios previously examined by the radiative transfer model intercomparison project.

TL;DR: The line-by-line radiative transfer model (LBLRTM), the line file creation program (LNFL), RRTM_LW and RRTm_SW, Monochromatic Radiative Transfer Model (MonoRTM) as mentioned in this paper, MT_CKD Continuum; and the Kurucz Solar Source Function (SDF).

TL;DR: In this paper, a line-by-line radiance model FASCODE has been developed and applied to the calculation of cooling rates for atmospheric water vapor, which achieves computational accuracies for the longwave upwelling and downwelling fluxes of the order of 0.2%.

TL;DR: In this article, the contribution of the far wings of collisionally broadened spectral lines to the water vapor continuum absorption is established, and the effects of deviations from the impact (Lorentz) line shape due to duration of collision effects are treated semi-empirically to provide agreement with experimental results for the continuum absorption and its temperature-dependence.