AS41A:
Challenges for Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences I

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Session ID#: 6056

Session Description:
We solicit papers on recent advances in radiative transfer in the presence of 3D spatial variability, focusing on, but not limited to, the atmospheric sciences. Studies dealing with exact 3D radiative transfer as well as approximations for sub-gridscale variability are welcome. Reports on theoretical, computational or even experimental topics are of interest, especially if they address applied problems in energetics or diagnostics. Examples of areas where 3D radiative transfer can be applied are satellite missions, airborne sensors, ground-based measurement networks, or dynamical modeling. Topics will therefore range from estimating broadband radiative fluxes and heating rates at the gridscale of GCMs or cloud-resolving/Large-Eddy-Simulation process models (radiative energetics) to simulating and interpreting narrowband or hyperspectral radiances, possibly with polarization (remote sensing diagnostics). In the latter case, we are interested in hearing about both forward and inverse problems, including 3D tomographic reconstructions. A possible outcome might be a Special Issue in JQSRT.
OSPA Liaison:  Tamas Varnai, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Anthony B Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Howard Barker, Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Tamas Varnai, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Anthony B Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Christine Chiu, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

0321 Cloud/radiation interaction [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3359 Radiative processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AS41A-01
Spectrally-invariant approximation within atmospheric radiative transfer (33510)
Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yuri Knyazikhin, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Tamas Varnai, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
AS41A-02
Representing 3D Radiative Effects in Weather and Climate Models (34822)
Robin James Hogan1,2, Sophia AK Schaefer2, Christine Chiu2, Carolin Klinger3, Bernhard C Mayer3 and Susanne Crewell4, (1)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (4)University of Cologne, Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, Cologne, Germany
AS41A-05
A new 3D Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Model Including Polarization: Validations and Applications (Invited) (34212)
Vasileios Barlakas, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology (LIM), Leipzig, Germany, Andreas Macke, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany and Manfred Wendisch, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany
AS41A-06
Application of a Monte Carlo Solar Radiative Transfer Model in a conventional GCM (35599)
Howard Barker1, Jason N Cole1 and Jiangnan Li2, (1)Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)CCCma, Environment Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
AS41A-07
Generalized Radiative Transfer Theory – An Efficient Model for 3D Domain- and/or Spectrally-Averaged Fluxes and Radiances Implemented in a Markov Chain Formalism (34676)
Anthony B Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
AS41A-08
Towards a Unified Treatment of Stochastic Radiative Transfer of Solar Radiation in Clouds (Invited) (34561)
Thomas Trautmann1, Adrian Doicu2, Dmitry Efremenko3 and Diego G Loyola3, (1)DLR, Remote Sensing Technology Institute, Wessling, Germany, (2)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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