Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Jul 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3314820m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 14, CiteID L14820
Physics
Optics
3
Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Optics, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Radiation: Transmission And Scattering
Scientific paper
Several recent publications have indicated that cloud droplets belonging to a particular size range may tend to cluster by forming small random particle groups imbedded in an otherwise uniform cloud. To analyze radiative transfer in clouds with such small-scale inhomogeneities, we invoke the concepts of statistical electromagnetics. We show that as long as the assumptions of ergodicity and spatial uniformity hold, one can still apply the classical radiative transfer equation in which the participating extinction and phase matrices are obtained by averaging the respective single-particle matrices over all the particles constituting the cloud. This result implies that comparisons of in situ and remote-sensing retrievals of the cloud-particle size distribution can be problematic and should be performed with caution.
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