Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9599225 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 2005 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
The validity of single scattering radiative transfer calculations for simulation of limb-emission measurements of clouds in the mid-infrared spectral region was investigated by comparison with a multiple scattering model. For in limb direction optically thin clouds, like polar stratospheric clouds, errors of the single scattering scheme range below 3%. For optically thick clouds deviations are below 3% in case of low single scattering albedo (ω0=0.24) increasing up to 10-30% for ω0=0.84. Clouds which are optically thick in limb, but thin in nadir direction, can cause limb radiances which are by a factor of 1.7 higher than the blackbody radiance at cloud altitude.
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