A Study of the Probability of Clear Line of Sight Through Single-Layer Cumulus Cloud Fields in the Tropical Western Pacific
The plane-parallel hypothesis (PPH) used to approximate clouds in global climate models neglects the 3-D effects of clouds. Such effects can contribute as much as 20 Wm-2 to the downward longwave flux at the surface. Several investigators have proposed accounting for longwave 3-D cloud effects by us...
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Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-1659 |