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thors are described in detail. Significant attention is paid to the correctness of
the inverse problem. Careful error analysis and study of the applicability range
in every considered case is in fact the investigation of stability of the inverse
problem solution. The detailed algorithms of the inverse problem solving and
its analysis could be applied to other similar data.
The application of the elaboratedmethods to the interpretation of the exper-
imental data allows the retrieval of new information: the spectral and vertical
dependence of the optical parameters of the clear and cloudy atmosphere.
The obtained examples of the vertical profiles and spectral dependence of the
optical parameters of the atmosphere and surface are presented in figures and
tables. There is a rich database of results similar to the examples presented here,
which could be used as an optical model for different atmospheric conditions.
On the basis of cloud optical parameters obtained from observations, the
mechanismof influence of themultiple scattering of radiationby clouddroplets
on the increase of true absorption by atmospheric aerosols and on the molec-
ular scattering and absorption by the cloudy atmosphere is proposed. The
empirical formulas for taking into account this mechanism are inferred. They
allow correcting numerical optical models. Numerically estimating validation
of the obtained cloud optical parameters is accomplished.
This mechanism is applied to the multi-component medium (droplets,
molecules, aerosols) and used for the explanation of the anomalous short-
wave radiation absorption by clouds. Until now this effect has not had an
adequate interpretation.