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Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean
Gary E. Thomas,Knut Stamnes +1 more
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In this paper, the authors provide a primer on radiative transfer: absorption and scattering opacity, Stokes parameters, Poincare sphere, and the Mueller matrix, as well as the principle of reciprocity for the bidirectional reflectance.Abstract:
Preface 1. Basic properties of radiation, atmospheres and oceans 2. Basic state variables 3. Interaction of radiation with matter 4. Formulation of radiative transfer problems 5. Approximate solutions of prototype problems 6. Accurate numerical solutions of prototype problems 7. Emission-dominated radiative processes 8. Radiative transfer in spectrally-complex media 9. Solar radiation driving photochemistry and photobiology 10. The role of radiation in climate Appendix 1. A primer on radiative transfer: absorption and scattering opacity Appendix 2. Stokes parameters, Poincare sphere, and the Mueller matrix Appendix 3. Nomenclature: glossary of symbols Appendix 4. Principle of reciprocity for the bidirectional reflectance Appendix 5. Isolation of the azimuth-dependence Appendix 6. The streaming term in spherical geometry Appendix 7. Reflectance and transmittance of the invariant intensity (I n2) Appendix 8. Scaling transformation for anisotropic scattering Appendix 9. Reciprocity, duality and effects of surface reflection Appendix 10. Removal of overflow problems in the intensity formulas.read more
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Numerical study on the summertime patches of red tide in the adjacent sea of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary, China.
TL;DR: Field observations and numerical simulations determined a red tide patch in the northeastern offshore area is caused by a northeast transport of the CDW truncated by a northwest intrusion of the Taiwan Warm Current (TWC) as winds deviated.
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Exact results in modeling planetary atmospheres—II. Semi-gray atmospheres
TL;DR: In this paper, an exact model for a gray, isotropically scattering planetary atmosphere in radiative equilibrium is proposed, where a slab is illuminated on one side by a collimated beam and is bounded on the other side by an emitting and partially reflecting ground.
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The dark-land MODIS collection 5 aerosol retrieval: Algorithm development and product evaluation
TL;DR: The aerosol optical depth (AOD) as mentioned in this paper measures the integral of the aerosol light extinction over vertical path through the atmosphere, and is a function of wavelength λ. Typically, AOD ranges from near zero in pristine conditions to 1.0 or even 5.0, during episodes of heavy pollution, smoke or dust.
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Two- and Four-Stream Combination Approximations for Computation of Diffuse Actinic Fluxes
TL;DR: In this article, the accuracy and efficiency of the three computational techniques, the δ-two-stream approximations, the −2-2-and −4-stream approximation, and the −3-4-approximation, based on the quadrature scheme, have been investigated.
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A Simple Model of the Millimeter-Wave Scattering Parameters of Randomly Oriented Aggregates of Finite Cylindrical Ice Hydrometeors
J. A. Weinman,Min-Jeong Kim +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the extinction coefficients, asymmetry factors, and backscatter phase functions describing scattering by randomly oriented aggregates of elongated cylinders were computed from the discrete dipole approximation.
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