Simulating irradiance enhancement dependence on cloud optical depth and solar zenith angle

ZK Pecenak, FA Mejia, B Kurtz, A Evan, J Kleissl - Solar Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Enhancement of solar irradiance (IE) has been observed in many locations under partly
cloudy sky conditions. Despite its notoriety, few studies have attempted to systematically …

The ARM Mobile Facility and its first international deployment: Measuring radiative flux divergence in West Africa

MA Miller, A Slingo - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Mobile Facility (AMF) was recently
developed to enable collection of detailed climate data in locations not currently sampled by …

IPRT polarized radiative transfer model intercomparison project–Three-dimensional test cases (phase B)

C Emde, V Barlakas, C Cornet, F Evans, Z Wang… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2018 - Elsevier
Initially unpolarized solar radiation becomes polarized by scattering in the Earth's
atmosphere. In particular molecular scattering (Rayleigh scattering) polarizes …

Validating the MYSTIC three-dimensional radiative transfer model with observations from the complex topography of Arizona's Meteor Crater

B Mayer, SW Hoch, CD Whiteman - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2010 - acp.copernicus.org
The MYSTIC three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model has been extended to
simulate solar and thermal irradiances with a rigorous consideration of topography. Forward …

Effects of 3-D thermal radiation on the development of a shallow cumulus cloud field

C Klinger, B Mayer, F Jakub, T Zinner… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
We investigate the effects of thermal radiation on cloud development in large-eddy
simulations (LESs) with the UCLA-LES model. We investigate single convective clouds …

[HTML][HTML] A novel hybrid scattering order-dependent variance reduction method for Monte Carlo simulations of radiative transfer in cloudy atmosphere

Z Wang, S Cui, J Yang, H Gao, C Liu… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a novel hybrid scattering order-dependent variance reduction method to
accelerate the convergence rate in both forward and backward Monte Carlo radiative …

Impulse response solution to the three-dimensional vector radiative transfer equation in atmosphere-ocean systems. I. Monte Carlo method

PW Zhai, GW Kattawar, P Yang - Applied optics, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We have developed a powerful 3D Monte Carlo code, as part of the Radiance in a Dynamic
Ocean (RaDyO) project, which can compute the complete effective Mueller matrix at any …

Element learning: a systematic approach of accelerating finite element-type methods via machine learning, with applications to radiative transfer

S Du, SN Stechmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.02467, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a systematic approach for accelerating finite element-type
methods by machine learning for the numerical solution of partial differential equations …

Radiometric comparison of multispectral imagers over a pseudo-invariant calibration site using a reference radiometric model

M Bouvet - Remote sensing of environment, 2014 - Elsevier
A model is proposed to simulate top-of-atmosphere (TOA) observations in the visible to near-
infrared (NIR) spectral range, over a pseudo-invariant calibration site, the so-called Libya-4 …

Uncertainty of SW cloud radiative effect in atmospheric models due to the parameterization of liquid cloud optical properties

E Jahangir, Q Libois, F Couvreux, B Vié… - Journal of Advances …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Clouds are largely responsible for the spread of climate models predictions. Here we focus
on the uncertainties in cloud shortwave radiative effect due to the parameterization of liquid …