Influences of cloud heterogeneity on cirrus optical properties retrieved from the visible and near-infrared channels of MODIS/SEVIRI for flat and optically thick cirrus clouds

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• 作者：Yongbo Zhou^a ; Xuejin Sun^a ; ^{xuejin.sun@outlook.com} ; Riwei Zhang^b ; Chuanliang Zhang^a ; Haoran Li^a ; Junhao Zhou^a ; Shaohui Li^a
• 关键词：Three-dimensional radiative effects ; Horizontal heterogeneity effects ; Stochastic cirrus clouds ; Cloud optical thickness ; MODIS ; SEVIRI
• 刊名：Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：187
• 期：Complete
• 页码：232-246
• 全文大小：3472 K
• 卷排序：187

文摘

The retrieved cloud optical properties for 3-D cirrus clouds are evaluated. The cloud optical thickness and uncertainty could be corrected and estimated. On the domain average, the effective diameter of ice crystal is overestimated. The optical properties show non-obvious dependence on the solar azimuth angle.