Modeling of Cloud/Radiation Processes for Cirrus Cloud Formation

Abstract

This technical report includes five reprints and pre-prints of papers associated with the modeling of cirrus cloud and radiation processes as well as remote sensing of cloud optical and microphysical properties from an airborne spectrometer based on radiative transfer principles. The time-dependent two-dimensional cirrus model includes a second-order turbulence closure scheme, an advanced interactive radiative transfer scheme, and ice microphysics parameterization. This model is used to understand the physical processes governing the formation and evolution of cirrostratus clouds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA336787

Entities

People

  • D. Frankel
  • K. N. Liou
  • Pei Yang
  • S. C. Ou
  • Yong Gu

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Cirrus Clouds
  • Climate Change
  • Clouds
  • Computational Science
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Heat Energy
  • Latent Heat
  • Meteorology
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Radiation
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Scattering
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers