Optical Transmission through Clouds

Abstract

This report is part of an ongoing effort to characterize clouds. Analytic models have been developed for cloud transmission and simulations have been carried out for spatial and temporal spreading. A simulation was developed for radiative transfer in finite clouds in order to gain insight into cloud characteristics. This document describes the finite cloud model and its verification for a stratus cloud. Keywords: Optical communications; Radiative transfer; Light transmission. (edc)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214765

Entities

Organizations

  • Titan Corp.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computational Science
  • Detectors
  • Distribution Functions
  • Geometry
  • Intensity
  • Mean Free Path
  • Mie Scattering
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Optical Properties
  • Physical Properties
  • Probability
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Thickness

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.