TY - JOUR
T1 - Absorption of solar radiation by stratocumulus clouds
T2 - aircraft measurements and theoretical caluclations
AU - Hayasaka, T.
AU - Kikuchi, N.
AU - Tanaka, M.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - Aircraft measurements and Monte Carlo calculations showed that spatial inhomogeneities of clouds cause horizontal radiative convergence and divergence, and that vertical radiative convergence - that is, absorptance with a usual definition - apparently becomes extremely large or negative. The apparent absorptance could be corrected by a method that evaluates the true adsorption from the difference between the apparent visible and near-infrared absorptions. The corrected absorptance ageed well with the theoretical absorptance calculated with plane-parallel cloud models. It is also inferred that the anomalous absorption pointed out by aircraft observations in previous studies does not exist. -from Authors
AB - Aircraft measurements and Monte Carlo calculations showed that spatial inhomogeneities of clouds cause horizontal radiative convergence and divergence, and that vertical radiative convergence - that is, absorptance with a usual definition - apparently becomes extremely large or negative. The apparent absorptance could be corrected by a method that evaluates the true adsorption from the difference between the apparent visible and near-infrared absorptions. The corrected absorptance ageed well with the theoretical absorptance calculated with plane-parallel cloud models. It is also inferred that the anomalous absorption pointed out by aircraft observations in previous studies does not exist. -from Authors
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U2 - 10.1175/1520-0450(1995)034<1047:AOSRBS>2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1175/1520-0450(1995)034<1047:AOSRBS>2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0028810599
VL - 34
SP - 1047
EP - 1055
JO - Journal of Applied Meteorology
JF - Journal of Applied Meteorology
SN - 0894-8763
IS - 5
ER -