D. Vokrouhlicky, and L. Sehnal, 1993, "CLOUD COVERAGE ASPECTS OF THE ALBEDO EFFECT", Celest. Mech., 57, 493.

ABSTRACT

We discuss some details of the cloud coverage aspects of the albedo effect -- the Earth reflected radiation pressure -- on the motion of an artificial satellite. Our care is focused on modeling of the Earth surface reflection and propagation of the radiation through the atmosphere. We adopt analytical models of these phenomena from the radiative transfer theory, in contrast to earlier developed approaches based on the fitting of the satellite photometry data. We perform several computations based on the accepted models for the ERS-1 and MACEK satellites to test the hierarchy of importance of the investigated effects. In the case of the mission MACEK (boarding the precise accelerometer) this information might be essential when interpreting the data.


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