We present a comprehensive examination of aerosol absorption with a focus on evaluating the sensitivity of the global distribution of aerosol absorption to key uncertainties in the process representation. For this purpose we extended the comprehensive aerosol-climate model ECHAM5HAM by effective medium approximations for the calculation of aerosol effective refractive indices, updated black car...

The spatial averaging theorem is applied to rigorously derive continuum-scale equations of radiative transfer in two-phase media consisting of either two semi-transparent or one semitransparent and one opaque homogeneous phases in the limit of geometric optics. The derivations are based on the equations of radiative transfer and the corresponding boundary conditions applied at the discrete-scal...

Aerosols are believed to play a direct role in the radiation budget of earth, but their net radiative effect is not well established, particularly on regional scales. Whether aerosols heat or cool a given location depends on their composition and column amount and on the surface albedo, information that is not routinely available, especially over land. Obtaining global information on aerosol an...

The present article deals with the analysis of transient radiative transfer caused by a short-pulse laser irradiation on a participating medium. A general formulation of the governing transient radiative transfer equation applicable to a 3-D Cartesian enclosure has been presented. To solve the transient radiative transfer equation, formulations have been presented for the three commonly used me...

this paper investigates the radiative absorptivity of a spherical cavity by using monte carlo techniques. several parameters such as the angle of incoming radiation which inters the cavity for both diffuse wall cavity and specular wall cavity has been  investigated. the absorptivity of a spherical cavity has been calculated and compared with the exact values when the angle of incoming radiation...

C loud radiative forcing, the difference between the top-of-atmosphere radiative fluxes for all sky and clear skies, is a straightforward metric to gauge the climate impacts of contrails and contrail cirrus, which constitute a potentially serious long-term environmental issue associated with aviation (Minnis et al. 2004; Wuebbles et al. 2010). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC...

Measurements from passive microwave satellite instruments such as the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B (AMSU-B) are sensitive to both liquid and ice cloud particles. Radiative transfer modeling is exploited to simulate the response of the AMSU-B instrument to mixed-phase clouds over land. The plane-parallel radiative transfer model employed for the study accounts for scattering and absorption...

The positivity-preserving property is an important and challenging issue for the numerical solution of radiative transfer equations. In the past few decades, different numerical techniques have been proposed to guarantee positivity of the radiative intensity in several schemes, however it is difficult to maintain both high order accuracy and positivity. The discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite el...