Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7846023 | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer | 2018 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
A structural model is developed for the single-scattering properties of snow and graupel particles with a strongly heterogeneous morphology and an arbitrary variable mass density. This effort is aimed to provide a mechanism to consider particle mass density variation in the microwave scattering coefficients implemented in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM). The stochastic model applies a bicontinuous random medium algorithm to a simple base shape and uses the Finite-Difference-Time-Domain (FDTD) method to compute the single-scattering properties of the resulting complex morphology.
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Authors
Patrick G. Stegmann, Guanglin Tang, Ping Yang, Benjamin T. Johnson,