A stochastic model for density-dependent microwave Snow- and Graupel scattering coefficients of the NOAA JCSDA community radiative transfer model

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• Journal Title:
  Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
• Personal Author:
  Stegmann, Patrick G. ; Tang, Guanglin ; Yang, Ping ; Johnson, Benjamin T.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
• Description:
  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.
• Keywords:
  Atomic And Molecular Physics, And Optics Radiation Spectroscopy Atomic And Molecular Physics, And Optics Atomic And Molecular Physics, And Optics
• Source:
  Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 211, 9-24
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.026
• ISSN:
  0022-4073
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Elsevier BV
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA15NES4400003
• Rights Information:
  Accepted Manuscript
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:dfe5c6ebdd974c149bccb4443abf3c76e338ecdd07f84f10b050196707d8d365
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/57726/noaa_57726_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.71 MB ]