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Clouds

Required reading

Required reading for Lecture 2:
Keith, D.W., Energetics, In: Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 278-283, 1996.
Additional reading for Lecture 7:
Rothman L.S. et al., The HITRAN 2004 molecular spectroscopic database. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, V96, 139-204, 2005.
Additional reading for Lecture 9:
Fu, Q., and K.N. Liou, On the correlated k-distribution method for radiative transfer in nonhomogeneous atmospheres. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 49, 2139-2156, 1992.
Mlawer, E.J., S.J. Taubman, P.D. Brown, M.J. Iacono and S.A. Clough: RRTM, a validated correlated-k model for the longwave. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 16,663-16,682, 1997.
Additional reading for Lecture 18:
Joseph, J.H., W. J. Wiscombe, and J. A. Weinman, The Delta-Eddington approximation for radiative flux transfer, J. Atmos. Sci. 33, 2452-2459, 1976.
Meador, W.E., and W. R. Weaver, Two stream approximations to radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres: A unified description of existing methods and a new improvement. J.Atmos.Sci. 37, 630-643, 1980.
Required reading for Lecture 20:
Introduction to SBDART
Additional reading for Lecture 20:
SBDART User Guide