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Airborne measurements of reflected solar radiation

Remote Sensing of Environment, 1971
Airborne measurement of directional variation in reflected solar radiation over soil surface and vegetation, using scanning ...
V SALOMONSON, W MARLATT
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Cloud Microphysics Retrieved From Reflected Solar Radiation Measurements

Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, 1990
Clouds have a large contribution to the earth's radiation budget (Ramanathan et al., 1989). Changes of cloud optical thickness and droplet size will bring a large climatic change (Liou and Ou, 1989). A cooling effect due to increasing cloud albedo with increasing anthropogenic cloud condensation nuclei may be comparable with the earth's warming due to ...
Teruyuki Nakajima, Michael D. King
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Evaporation suppression by solar radiation reflection

Journal of Geophysical Research, 1971
In a recent paper, Beard and Gainer [1970] studied the influence of solar radiation reflectance on water evaporation. They concluded that for maximum suppression of evaporation, a special surface film or monolayer was required that would not only act as a diffusion barrier, but also as a good reflector of solar radiation.
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Proton radiation effects on solar concentrator reflective surfaces

2nd Thermophysics Specialist Conference, 1967
Proton radiation effects on mirror reflectance in high vacuum at various temperatures, degradation by blistering found to be highly temperature ...
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The reflection of solar radiation from bar cloud arrays

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 1988
An analytical solution for the albedo to solar radiation of a broken cloud field over a black, nonreflecting ocean surface is presented. The clouds are assumed to be infinitely long, nontransmitting bars, with any top and side albedos. Cloud‐cloud shading and reflections are fully and analytically taken into account in the assessment of the ...
Joachim H. Joseph, Victor Kagan
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Radiation Entropies in Diffuse Reflection and Scattering and Application to Solar Radiation

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 1982
The specific intensity of energy radiation reflected diffusely by a large sphere (or scattered by a small particle) is examined. The entropy change in diffuse reflection of radiation by the sphere (or in scattering) is given and shown to be positive.
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Radiation transfer in plant canopies: Scattering of solar radiation and canopy reflectance

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 1988
The one‐dimensional vertical model of radiation transfer in a plant canopy described by Verstraete (1987) is extended to account for the transfer of diffuse radiation. This improved model computes the absorption and scattering of both visible and near‐infrared radiation in a multilayer canopy as a function of solar position and leaf orientation ...
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Reflective properties of white diffuse materials for solar radiation flux measurement systems

Le Journal de Physique IV, 1999
Video camera systems using reflective targets for measuring the flux distribution of concentrated solar radiation became quite common. Here the reflecting targets must have nearly Lambertian reflection properties. Within the frame of the development of new flux measurement principle using a camera and a target the optical properties of three reflecting
Neumann, A., Schmitz, A.
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Effect of atmospheric scattering and surface reflection on upwelling solar radiation

16th Thermophysics Conference, 1981
A study is presented of the solar radiation transfer in the complete earth-atmosphere system, and numerical results are compared with satellite data obtained during the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment on Nimbus 6, in August, 1975. Emphasis is placed on the upwelling radiance distribution at the top of the atmosphere, assumed to be at 50 km.
J. SUTTLES, B. BARKSTROM, S. TIWARI
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A Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for Reflection of Solar Radiation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 1994
A rapid analytical radiative transfer model for reflection of solar radiation in plane-parallel atmospheres is developed based on the Sobolev approach and the delta function transformation technique. A distinct advantage of this model over alternative two-stream solutions is that in addition to yielding the irradiance components, which turn out to be ...
X. Xiang, E. A. Smith, C. G. Justus
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