Prediction of the solar radiant flux and heating rates in a polluted atmosphere

R. W. Bergstrom; R. Viskanta

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v25i5.9707

Prediction of the solar radiant flux and heating rates in a polluted atmosphere

Tellus

Volume 25 (1973): Issue 5

By: R. W. Bergstrom and R. Viskanta

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|Jan 1973

Abstract

A direct method for the solution of the spherical harmonics approximation to the equation of radiative transfer in an inhomogeneous, absorbing, emitting, non-isotropically scattering plane-parallel atmosphere is presented. The P₁ and P₃-approximations of the spherical harmonics method are compared with other more detailed methods for determining the solar radiative flux and the flux divergence in an absorbing and scattering atmosphere with an arbitrary phase function. The solar heating rates due to absorption by the pollution aerosols were predicted for a model atmosphere as a function of aerosol composition, concentration distribution, and solar elevation angle. The solar heating rates for nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and sulfur dioxide are also determined. It is found that a small amount of absorbing particles can significantly affect the radiative transfer in the atmosphere.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v25i5.9707 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 486 - 498

Submitted on: Dec 21, 1972

Accepted on: Apr 16, 1973

Published on: Jan 1, 1973

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1973 R. W. Bergstrom, R. Viskanta, published by Stockholm University Press
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