Solar radiation transfer in two-dimensional clouds
Abstract
A theoretical model for solar radiation transfer in a two-dimensional cloud is presented. This model assumes a cloud which has finite extent in the X- and Z-directions and an infinite extent in the Y-direction. The cloud consists of a homogeneous medium, which scatters the externally incident solar radiation and contains no internal emitters of radiation of thermal or other origin. A general case is considered in which the cloud absorbs and scatters the incident solar radiation. The steady state is considered; the cloud is not in motion, so that attention may be focused on the directional properties of radiation transport in the cloud. The source function involves only scattering processes; it includes contributions due to multiple scattering and single scattering of the direct beam. The resulting radiative transfer equation for this model is an integro-differential equation.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhDT.........5V
- Keywords:
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- Clouds;
- Mathematical Models;
- Radiation Distribution;
- Solar Radiation;
- Differential Equations;
- Integral Equations;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Scattering;
- Solar Physics