Abstract: To parameterize the reflected fluxes from broken cloud fields, Monte Carlo calculations are performed for several cumulus cloud fields. The results with the effects of cloud-cloud interaction and enhanced illuminated area ...

Abstract: Reflected fluxes are investigated for a spatially heterogeneous medium. Multidimensional radiative transfer equations for a collimated source are solved as a standard eigenvalue problem (discrete-ordinate method) by using ...

Abstract: The usual procedure in determining the earth's radiation budget is that observed radiances are first used to derive cloud properties. The properties are then used in a one-dimensional model to deduct cloud albedos. This ...

Abstract: An efficient iterative retrieval method for arbitrarily shaped raindrop size distributions (ITRAN) is developed for Doppler spectra measured with a wind profiler. A measured Doppler spectrum is a convolution of the ...

Abstract: Radiative transfer calculations for a one-dimensional column model of the atmosphere containing a plane-parallel, homogeneous cloud are used to show that the common procedure of assuming that fields of view for high ...

Abstract: In this paper a five-beam wind profiler and a collocated meteorological tower are used to estimate the accuracy of four-beam and three-beam wind profiler techniques in measuring horizontal components of the wind. In the ...