[HTML][HTML] The Landsat scale break in stratocumulus as a three-dimensional radiative transfer effect: Implications for cloud remote sensing

A Davis, A Marshak, R Cahalan… - Journal of the …, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Landsat Scale Break in Stratocumulus as a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Effect:
Implications for Cloud Remote Sensing in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 54 Issue …

[HTML][HTML] Scale invariance in liquid water distributions in marine stratocumulus. Part II: Multifractal properties and intermittency issues

A Marshak, A Davis, W Wiscombe… - Journal of the …, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
Scale Invariance in Liquid Water Distributions in Marine Stratocumulus. Part II: Multifractal
Properties and Intermittency Issues in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 54 …

Accuracy of the independent pixel approximation for satellite estimates of oceanic boundary layer cloud optical depth

LH Chambers, BA Wielicki… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
A theoretical study has been conducted on the effects of cloud horizontal inhomogeneity on
the retrieval of optical depth by remote sensing of visible reflectance. Forty‐five Landsat …

Modeling cloud fraction and horizontal variability in marine boundary layer clouds

G Considine, JA Curry, B Wielicki - Journal of Geophysical …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Boundary layer clouds play an important role in the global energy budget. The radiative
properties of these clouds depend upon the cloud fraction and the horizontal variability of …

Inhomogeneity effects on cloud shortwave absorption measurements: Two‐aircraft simulations

A Marshak, A Davis, W Wiscombe… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
We set up an Observation System Simulation in order to quantify the idiosyncratic
uncertainties caused by cloud inhomogeneity in two‐aircraft measurements. An …

[HTML][HTML] Independent pixel and two-dimensional estimates of Landsat-derived cloud field albedo

LH Chambers, BA Wielicki… - Journal of the …, 1997 - journals.ametsoc.org
A theoretical study has been conducted on the effects of cloud horizontal inhomogeneity on
cloud albedo bias. A two-dimensional (2D) version of the Spherical Harmonic Discrete …

Retrieval of Physical and Optical Cloud Thicknesses from Space-Borne and Wide-Angle Imaging Lidar

A Davis, D Winker, A Marshak, R Cahalan… - … in Atmospheric Remote …, 1997 - Springer
Pulsed laser beams are essentially δ-functions in space, time and direction; lidar returns are
therefore the remotely observable parts of the cloud's Green function for radiative transfer …

Insight into three-dimensional radiation transport processes from diffusion theory, with applications to the atmosphere

AB Davis, A Marshak, WJ Wiscombe… - Radiative Transfer II …, 1997 - dl.begellhouse.com
There are two simple approaches to the manifestly 3D problem of radiative transfer in the
cloudy atmosphere in the solar spectrum. First, the “weighted plane-parallel” approximation …

Off-beam cloud lidar: First detection of diffusing photons

A Davis, JD Spinhirne, M McGill… - Optical Remote Sensing …, 1997 - opg.optica.org
Off-Beam Cloud Lidar: First Detection of Diffusing Photons Page 1 OMC3-1 /39 Off-Beam Cloud
Lidar: First Detection of Diffusing Photons Anthony Davis,* James D. Spinhirne, t Matthew …

Cloud macrostructure and radiation

RF Cahalan, A Davis, A Marshak… - IGARSS'97. 1997 …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud radiative properties are sensitive not only to drop size and other parameters of cloud
micro-structure, but also cloud shape, spacing, other parameters of cloud macro-structure …