[A-AS01] [EE] 3D Cloud Modeling as a Tool for 3D Radiative Transfer, and Conversely

[AAS01-P08] Variational Iteration Method for Infrared Radiative Transfer in a Scattering Medium

*Feng Zhang^1,2, Yi-Ning Shi², Jiangnan Li³, Kun Wu², Hironobu Iwabuchi¹ (1.Tohoku University, 2.Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, 3.Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis, University of Victoria)

Keywords:Variational Iteration Method, Radiative Transfer, Absorption Approximation

A new scheme is proposed for using the variational iteration method (VIM) to solve the problem of infrared radiative transfer in a scattering medium. This scheme allows the zeroth-order solution to be identied as the absorption approximation and the scattering effect is included in the first-order iteration. The upward and downward intensities are calculated separately in the VIM, which simplies the calculation process. By applying the VIM scheme to two single-layer scattering media and a full radiation algorithm with gaseous transmission, it is found that the VIM is generally more accurate than the discrete-ordinates method (DOM), especially for cirrostratus. Computationally, the VIM is slightly faster than the DOM in the two-stream case but more than twice as fast in the four-stream case. In view of its high overall accuracy and computational efficiency, the VIM is well suited to solving infrared radiative transfer in climate models.