Modeling Errors in Diffuse-Sky Radiation

Most current methods for calculating radiative transfer treat radiance errors to the point where no one has seriously light as a scalar quantity, even though it is well known that a worried about the adequacy of the scalar approximation in proper description of light requires explicit recognition of its radiative transfer modeling. Moreover, the nature of radiative electromagnetic nature. According to the Maxwell equations, modeling in many climate-related applications is in terms of the electromagnetic radiation field possesses vector properties relative differences, or ratios of radiative fluxes, further and consists of a large number of plane-wave packets with diluting the significance of any potential errors arising from specific phase and polarization. Thus, a light beam is actually the scalar approximation. Thus, it would seem that scalar a vector quantity described by its Stokes parameters, which calculations of radiative transfer should be adequate for are appropriate time averages over the individual plane-waves modeling radiative flux and for comparing model results to that express the macroscopic properties of the light beam as a measurements. 4-vector quantity,