Additional Confirmation of the Validity of Laboratory Simulation of Cloud Radiances

Abstract

The results of a laboratory experiment are presented that provide additional verification of the methodology adapted for simulation of the radiances reflected from fields of optically thick clouds using the Cloud Field Optical Simulator (CFOS) at Colorado State University. The comparison of these data with their theoretically derived counterparts indicates that the crucial mechanism of cloud-to-cloud radiance field interaction is accurately simulated in the CFOS experiments and adds confidence to the manner in which the optical depth is scaled.