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

abstract

• 2018 Elsevier Ltd 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.

authors

• Yang, Ping

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

author list (cited authors)

• Stegmann, P. G., Tang, G., Yang, P., & Johnson, B. T.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• Stegmann, Patrick G||Tang, Guanglin||Yang, Ping||Johnson, Benjamin T

publication date

• May 2018

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer  Journal

keywords

• Bicontinuous Random Medium
• Crtm
• Fdtd
• Graupel
• Snow

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.026

start page

• 9

end page

• 24

volume

• 211

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.02.026