Abstract: Thermal infrared radiation is so incorporated into the discrete ordinate method as to be usable in climate models. A source term for thermal infrared radiation contains up to the second derivative, set to be a constant, ...

Abstract: A new method is proposed to retrieve various cloud physical parameters of water clouds from the solar-flux reflectances at four wavelengths measured by using the airborne Multi-channel Cloud Pyranometer (MCP) system. The ...

Abstract: As an international collaborative research activity within the Japanese Cloud-Climate Study (JACCS) program, the authors participated in the second Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Enhanced Shortwave Experiment ...

Abstract: Optical depths in the visible to infrared spectral region were obtained from solar extinction measurements with two sun photometers during the First ISCCP Regional Experiment Phase II Cirrus Intensive Field Observation in ...

Abstract: The surface direct radiative forcing and optical properties of aerosols have been analyzed from a ground-based solar radiation measurement, which was made under clear-sky conditions in Tsukuba, Japan, over two years from ...