Solar Radiation and Clouds

The research reported in this monograph represents an attempt to explore the extreme values as well as the more probable values of the radiative characteristics of water and ice clouds in the solar wavelengths. It discusses topics such as monomodal drop size distributions, cloud thickness, cloud geometry, to the radiative characteristics of clouds and ice crystals.

Contenu

Introduction. - The Effect of Monomodal Drop Size Distributions, Cloud Top Heights, Cloud Thickness and Vertical Water Vapor profiles upon Cloud Heating Rates and the Cloud Radiation Field. - The Effect of Cloud Bimodal Drop Size Distributions upon the Radiative Characteristics of Clouds. - The Solar Radiative Properties of Ice Crystals. - The Effect of Cloud Geometry upon the Radiative Characteristics of Finite Clouds. - The Effect of Vertical and Horizontal Cloud Microstructure Inhomogeneities upon the Radiative Characteristics of Cloud Layers.