Role of Clouds on Surface Solar Irradiance over ARM Central Site
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observations over the globe. The modeling activities encompass diagnostic studies with a number of radiative transfer codes, particularly the Discrete Ordinate model of Stamnes et al. (1988) (DISORT), and the development of a highly flexible Monte Carlo model to compute the threedimensional (3-D) radiation field for any cloud (liquid water) distribution. In addition, a number of multifractal analyses have been performed with satellite data, and new radiative transfer simulations have been achieved. Introduction
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