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A.d.iii. Radiative transfer of dust

The absorption, scattering and emission of solar and infrared radiation associated with dust are calculated by using the δ-Eddington approximation (c.f., Liou, 1980). The δ-Eddington approximation is well used in calculating radiative transfer with anisotropic scattering. The asymmetry factor of dust for solar and infrared radiation are between 0 and 1 which means forward scattering occurs.

The upward and downward diffuse solar radiative flux per unit wave length associated with dust (, ) are obtained as solutions of following equations.

(A.31)
(A.32)

The boundary condition of (A.31) and (A.32) is that = 0 at the top of atmosphere and = × A at the surface, where A is the surface albedo. are expressed as follows.


where are optical depth, single scattering albedo and asymmetry factor modified by δ-Eddington approximation, which are given as follows.


where are optical depth, single scattering albedo and asymmetry factor, respectively.

The upward and downward infrared radiative flux per unit wave length associated with dust are obtained as solutions of similar equations used for calculation of diffuse solar flux ((A.31), (A.32)) except that the single scattering of direct Solar radiation term is replaced by the thermal emission term.

(A.33)
(A.34)

The boundary condition of (A.33) and (A.34) is that = 0 at the top of atmosphere and is equal to at the surface. The Plank function in (A.33) and (A.34) is averaged over the band width.


are the lower and upper wave length of the band.

The radiative heating rate associated with dust is calculated as follows.

(A.35)
(A.36)

is the direct solar radiative flux per unit wave length,

(A.37)

The band width and optical parameters of dust (extinction efficiency, single scattering albedo, asymmetry factor) in each band are same as those of Forget et al. (1999) except in 11.6 - 20 μm band which is not considered in our model for computational simplicity. The overlapping between dust solar band and the CO2 near infrared band is not considered. The effect of this simplification can be negligible because the total radiative flux absorbed by CO2 in the near infrared band are 1 % of incident solar radiative flux at the top of atmosphere. The value of extinction efficiency for solar radiation is 3.04 which is the value for 0.67 μm solar radiation presented by Ockert-Bell, et al. (1997) . The visible to infrared opacity ratio is set to be 2 (Forget, 1998). Detail descriptions of band width and optical parameters of dust are shown in appendix A.d.v .

The dust opacity is calculated by using the mass mixing ratio and effective radius of dust. The effective radius is calculated by using the size distribution function of dust particle (see appendix A.d.iv). In this model, we suppose that the size distribution of dust particle is the modified gamma distribution (Toon et al., 1977).

(A.38)

where m. By using these parameters, we obtain the effective radius is equal to 2.5 μm (Pollack et al., 1979).


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