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Simulation of Brightness Fields of Solar Radiation in the Presence of Optically Anisotropic Ice-Crystal Clouds: Algorithm and Test Results

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An original algorithm of statistical simulation of the solar radiative transfer in the presence of ice-crystal clouds, optically anisotropic with respect to the zenith angle of incident radiation, is presented. Examples of preliminarily calculated local optical characteristics of clouds composed of horizontally oriented plates (without accounting for the internal absorption) are given. The software developed was tested within two numerical experiments. The first experiment compared the calculations of reflected radiation for an isotropic medium using the algorithm developed earlier for clouds composed of chaotically oriented particles, and the algorithm presented in this work. The second experiment compared the angular dependence of upward radiation and the scattering phase function in ice-crystal clouds composed of horizontally oriented plates. The numerical experiments indicate that, when this algorithm is used in the radiative transfer simulation, the properties of an optically anisotropic medium are taken adequately into account.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank S.M. Prigarin (Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk) for fruitful discussions on the topic of this research, as well as I.A. Grishin (formerly Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk), who calculated the optical characteristics of horizontally oriented particles as part of the collaborative works supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 06-05-64484), and by the International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (INTAS) (grant no. 05-1000008-8024).

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The software for the algorithm of statistical simulation of radiative transfer in optically anisotropic clouds was developed with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 19-01-00351); and the radiation computations were performed within the State Assignment of Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk.

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Zhuravleva, T.B. Simulation of Brightness Fields of Solar Radiation in the Presence of Optically Anisotropic Ice-Crystal Clouds: Algorithm and Test Results. Atmos Ocean Opt 34, 140–147 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1024856021020135

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Keywords:

  • radiative transfer
  • Monte Carlo method
  • optical anisotropy
  • horizontally oriented plates