Solar Radiative Transfer for Wind-Sheared Cumulus Cloud Fields

The Monte Carlo method of photon transport was used to simulate solar radiative transfer for cumulus-like cloud forms (and cloud fields) possessing structural characteristics similar to those induced by wind shear. Using regular infinite arrays of finite, slanted-cuboidal clouds (parallelepipeds), it was demonstrated that the magnitude of cloud field albedo variation as a function of relative solar azimuth angle (up to 40% of albedo) can be …