Landsat observations in support of ARM

Cahalan, R.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (United States)

关键词: Clouds;    Remote Sensing;    Radiant Heat Transfer;    Mathematical Models;    54 Environmental Sciences;   

DOI  :  10.2172/820037
RP-ID  :  None
RP-ID  :  AI02-97ER62369
RP-ID  :  820037

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Compare results from state-of-the-art 3D radiative transfer techniques on a variety of input cloud fields with a wide degree of complexity. The goal of this proposal is to compare results from state-of-the-art 3D radiative transfer techniques on a variety of input cloud fields with a wide degree of complexity. This effort will complement ongoing cloud-related efforts of the GCSS working groups, and DoE-ARM Single Column Modeling and Cloud working groups. The intercomparison will be beneficial in delineating the limits and merits of the various approaches currently used to treat 3D radiative transfer theory and will create a broader consensus on what are the most serious remote sensing errors due to 3D effects. Realistic cloud water distributions used as input for many of the experiments will come directly from the ARM archive or from ARM-related modeling activities (such as those in progress as part of GCSS).