Journal article
Monte Carlo Simulation of Solar Reflectances for Cloudy Atmospheres
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations of solar radiative transfer were performed for a well-resolved, large, three-dimensional (3D) domain of boundary layer cloud simulated by a cloud-resolving model. In order to represent 3D distributions of optical properties for ∼2 × 106 cloudy cells, attenuation by droplets was handled by assigning each cell a cumulative distribution of extinction derived from either a model or an assumed discrete droplet size spectrum. …
Authors
Barker HW; Goldstein RK; Stevens DE
Journal
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 60, No. 16, pp. 1881–1894
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Publication Date
August 2003
DOI
10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<1881:mcsosr>2.0.co;2
ISSN
0022-4928