William L. Ridgway

TL;DR: In this paper, a fractal model was employed to reproduce both the probability distribution and the wavenumber spectrum of the stratocumulus liquid water path, as observed during the First ISCCP Regional Experiment (FIRE).

TL;DR: In this article, Monte Carlo radiative transfer methods are employed to estimate the plane-parallel albedo bias for marine stratocumulus clouds, which arises from the assumption that cloud liquid water is uniformly distributed.

TL;DR: In this paper, various approaches to parameterizing the broadband transmission functions for utilization in numerical climate models are presented; one-parameter scaling is applied to approximate a nonhomogeneous path with an equivalent homogeneous path, and the diffuse transmittances are either interpolated from precomputed tables or fit by analytical functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of cloud structure on column absorption by water vapor is investigated using an efficient Monte Carlo technique, the independent pixel approximation, and plane-parallel theory, and the spectral range between 0.9 and 1.0 mm (with strong water vapor absorption and negligible cloud liquid water absorption) is selected for a detailed study, not only of domain-averaged quantities, but also radiation fields.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale regional view of the aerosol during the ACE-Asia time period was provided by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).