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3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Alexander Marshak

    1. Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

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  2. Anthony Davis

    1. Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group (ISR-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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  • Assesses and distills decades of development in three-dimensional cloud radiation
  • Includes a section on the fundamental physics and computational techniques
  • Focuses closely on the impact of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget - an essential aspect of climate modeling - and remote observation of clouds
  • This multiauthor work is the only book of its kind that treats this important topic of atmospheric physics at the graduate student level
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments (EARTH)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Preliminaries

    1. Scales, Tools and Reminiscences

      • W.J. Wiscombe
      Pages 3-92

    2. Observing Clouds and Their Optical Properties

      • E.E. Clothiaux, H.W. Barker, A.V. Korolev
      Pages 93-150

  3. Fundamentals

    1. A Primer in 3D Radiative Transfer

      • A.B. Davis, Y. Knyazikhin
      Pages 153-242

    2. Numerical Methods

      • K.F. Evans, A. Marshak
      Pages 243-281

    3. Approximation Methods in Atmospheric 3D Radiative Transfer Part 1: Resolved Variability and Phenomenology

      • A.B. Davis, I.N. Polonsky
      Pages 283-340

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 653-686
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Developments in three-dimensional cloud radiation over the past few decades are assessed and distilled into this contributed volume. Chapters are authored by subject-matter experts who address a broad audience of graduate students, researchers, and anyone interested in cloud-radiation processes in the solar and infrared spectral regions. After two introductory chapters and a section on the fundamental physics and computational techniques, the volume extensively treats two main application areas: the impact of clouds on the Earth's radiation budget, which is an essential aspect of climate modeling; and remote observation of clouds, especially with the advanced sensors on current and future satellite missions.

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"The book is a tour de force, a thorough description of the pioneering work on 3D radiative transfer for the past couple of decades. Much of this work was undertaken by the sixteen authors and two editors." Jim Coackley, AMS Bulletin, 2007

Editors and Affiliations

  • Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

    Alexander Marshak

  • Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group (ISR-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    Anthony Davis

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