Abstract: A matrix method for multiple-scattering problems, which was the subject of earlier papers, is extended to include the state of polarization in the description of both singly and multiply scattered raditaion. Comparisons ...

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Abstract: A hand-held spectrograph-camera has been used by the Gemini-5 astronauts to obtain spectra of sunlight reflected from clouds in the region of the oxygen ?A? band near 7600 Å. The transmittance measurements at selected ...

Abstract: Results of calculations of diffuse reflection and transmission of cloud-model layers are presented. These calculations which are based on matrix methods developed by the authors and discussed in a previous paper include ...

Abstract: If the radiation field is approximated by a discrete distribution at points or latitude circles on the unit sphere, matrix relationships can be written between incident and reflected or transmitted radiation fields. The ...

Abstract: The Nimbus 6 satellite Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) experiment has continuously monitored the solar radiation input and the reflected shortwave and emitted longwave radiation exitance from the earth-atmosphere system since ...

Abstract: Three spectrally broadband measurement sets are presently being used for earth radiation budget (ERB) studies. These are the Nimbus-6 ERB (July 1975 to June 1978), the Nimbus-7 ERB (November 1978 to the present), and the ...