Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Calculations of the multiple-scattered solar radiation in the earth's atmosphere are compared with telephotometer measurements of the sky intensity obtained during the EPA-sponsored Visibility Impairment by Sulfate Transport and Transformation in the Atmosphere experiment. The doubling and adding calculation technique, in which the reflection and transmission properties of the atmosphere are computed by initially calculating such properties for the case of very thin layers and then adding adjacent layers together, is described and compared with data for two cloudless sky conditions. The first is typical of clean tropospheric conditions, and the second represents an ultraclean atmosphere in which surface aerosol scattering is much lower than molecular scattering. Good agreement is found between the computations and the measurement data.
Keywords:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Type:
Joint Conference on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology; Mar 24, 1980 - Mar 27, 1980; New Orleans, LA
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