Developments in three-dimensional cloud radiation over the past few decades are assessed and distilled into this contributed volume. Chapters are authored by subject-matter experts who address a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and anyone interested in cloud-radiation processes in the solar and infrared spectral regions. After two introductory chapters and a section on the fundamental physics and computational techniques, the volume extensively treats two main application areas: the impact of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget, which is an essential aspect of climate modeling; and remote observation of clouds, especially with the advanced sensors on current and future satellite missions.
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"The book is a tour de force, a thorough description of the pioneering work on 3D radiative transfer for the past couple of decades. Much of this work was undertaken by the sixteen authors and two editors." Jim Coackley, AMS Bulletin, 2007
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Developments in three-dimensional cloud radiation over the past few decades are assessed and distilled into this contributed volume. Chapters are authored by subject-matter experts who address a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and anyone interested in cloud- radiation processes in the solar and infrared spectral regions. After two introductory chapters and a section on the fundamental physics and computational techniques, the volume extensively treats two main application areas: the impact of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget, which is an essential aspect of climate modeling; and remote observation of clouds, especially with the advanced sensors on current and future satellite missions.
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cloud heterogeneity, radiative smoothing, independent column approximation, horizontal photon transport, albedo bias, independent pixel approximation, effective cloud fraction, marine boundary layer clouds, shaped optical media, canopy spectral response, cloud physics instruments, radiant energy conservation, inferring optical depth, inhomogeneous clouds, total photon path, cloud remote sensing, vertical optical thickness, zenith radiance, micropulse lidar, stratocumulus albedo, cubic clouds, stochastic radiative transfer, unresolved clouds, atmospheric radiation field, airmass factor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Fractal Frontiers by M. M. Novak on 5 pages
- Monte Carlo Methods in Atmospheric Optics (Springer series in optical sciences ; v. 12) by G. I. Marchuk on 4 pages
- Radiative Transfer (Dover Books on Physics) by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar on 4 pages
- Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series) by Gary E. Thomas on page 233, page 280, and page 518
- The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn on page 4, page 55, and page 84
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