Abstract: This paper presents a formulation of the radiative transfer equation which allows for the distinction between various groups of spatial scales of variation that comprise the radiance field. Such a formulation provides a ...

Abstract: A general transform method is presented for studying problems of radiative transfer through absorbing, emitting and anisotropically scattering media exposed to arbitrary radiation conditions on its boundaries. The method ...

Abstract: Monthly mean precipitable water data obtained from passive microwave radiometry (SMMR) are correlated with NMC-blended sea surface temperature data. It is shown that the monthly mean water vapor content of the atmosphere ...

Abstract: A multiple-scattering radiative transfer model is employed to evaluate the 11 ?m and the broad-band infrared (IR) fluxes, cooling rates and emittances in model cirrus clouds for a number of standard vertical atmospheric ...

Abstract: The problem of radiative transfer in a horizontally infinite cloud layer possessing anisotropy with respect to volume extinction and other single-scattering properties was solved using the method of discrete space theory. ...

Abstract: A theoretical study was carried out to investigate the effect of radiative heating and cooling on the mass and heat budgets of an ice crystal. Equations describing the radiative budget of an ice crystal were derived and ...

Abstract: This paper offers a critical review of the topic of cloud?climate feedbacks and exposes some of the underlying reasons for the inherent lack of understanding of these feedbacks and why progress might be expected on this ...

Abstract: This paper presents a review of the various methods used to compute both the fluxes and the rate of heating and/or cooling due to atmospheric radiation for use in numerical models of atmospheric circulation. The paper does ...

Abstract: A new treatment of absorption in the window region depending on water vapor pressure is incorporated into the IR cooling rate model of Rodgers [for review see Rodgers and Walshaw (1966). The appropriate mean diffuse ...

Abstract: This paper revisits the classical problem of particle scattering?gaseous absorption and considers the extent to which the growth of absorption lines of a known gas can be used to obtain information about the scattering ...