Application of a Monte Carlo solar radiative transfer modelin the McICA framework

Large‐scale atmospheric models (LSAMs) that utilize the Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation (McICA) have, thus far, paired McICA only with two‐stream approximations (TSAs) of the radiative transfer equation. In this study, the short‐wave TSA is exchanged for a Monte Carlo (MC) photon transport model. More than 44 000 domains of cloud properties retrieved from A‐Train satellite data, each measuring 256 km in length, were used to assess …