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RISStatistical Analysis of the Uncertainties in Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals Caused by Three-Dimensional Radiative Effects
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper presents a simple yet general approach to estimate the uncertainties that arise in satellite retrievals of cloud optical depth when the retrievals use one-dimensional radiative transfer theory for heterogeneous ...
Observations of Three-Dimensional Radiative Effects that Influence MODIS Cloud Optical Thickness Retrievals
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: When cloud properties are retrieved from satellite observations, current calculations apply one-dimensional (1D) theory to the three-dimensional (3D) world: they consider only vertical processes and ignore horizontal ...
Cellular Statistical Models of Broken Cloud Fields. Part III: Markovian Properties
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractIn the third part of the ?Cellular Statistical Models of Broken Cloud Fields? series the cloud statistics formalism developed in the first two parts is interpreted in terms of the theory of Markov processes. The ...
Inferring Optical Depth of Broken Clouds above Green Vegetation Using Surface Solar Radiometric Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A method for inferring cloud optical depth τ is introduced and assessed using simulated surface radiometric measurements produced by a Monte Carlo algorithm acting on fields of broken, single-layer, boundary layer clouds ...
A Simple Stochastic Model for Generating Broken Cloud Optical Depth and Cloud-Top Height Fields
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple and fast algorithm for generating two correlated stochastic two-dimensional (2D) cloud fields is described. The algorithm is illustrated with two broken cumulus cloud fields: cloud optical depth and cloud-top ...
Cellular Statistical Models of Broken Cloud Fields. Part IV: Effects of Pixel Size on Idealized Satellite Observations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractIn the fourth part of our ?Cellular Statistical Models of Broken Cloud Fields? series we use the binary Markov processes framework for quantitative investigation of the effects of low resolution of idealized satellite ...
Space–Time Characteristics of Light Transmitted through Dense Clouds: A Green's Function Analysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Here, previous work using photon diffusion theory to describe radiative transfer through dense plane-parallel clouds at nonabsorbing wavelengths is extended. The focus is on the scaling of space- and time-domain moments ...
The Potential for Improved Boundary Layer Cloud Optical Depth Retrievals from the Multiple Directions of MISR
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) views the earth with nine cameras, ranging from a 70° zenith angle viewing forward through nadir to 70° viewing aft. MISR does not have an operational cloud optical depth ...
The Landsat Scale Break in Stratocumulus as a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Effect: Implications for Cloud Remote Sensing
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Several studies have uncovered a break in the scaling properties of Landsat cloud scenes at nonabsorbing wavelengths. For scales greater than 200?400 m, the wavenumber spectrum is approximately power law in k?5/3, but from ...
Scale Invariance of Liquid Water Distributions in Marine Stratocumulus. Part I: Spectral Properties and Stationarity Issues
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This study investigates the internal structure of marine stratocumulus (Sc) using the spatial fluctuations of liquid water content (LWC) measured along horizontal flights off the coast of southern California during the ...