Comparison of Calculated and Measured Radiative Fluxes Under Altocumulus and Stratocumulus Cloud Layers
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Properly accounting for the effects of clouds on radiative fluxes in numerical models of the atmosphere remains difficult. The difficulty arises from the complexity of the processes that determine macroscopic cloud structure (cloud fraction, height, thickness, and water content) and from the need to know microscopic cloud structure (the constitution, shape, and In order to determine the effects of Ac and Sc on the radiation, size of the cloud particles) in order to calculate radiative we selected an accurate radiative transfer code to calculate the fluxes. radiative fluxes. The relevant aspects of this code are
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