A New Code SORD for Simulation of Polarized Light Scattering in the Earth Atmosphere

We report a new publicly available radiative transfer (RT) code for numerical simulation of polarized light scattering in plane-parallel atmosphere of the Earth. Using 44 benchmark tests, we prove high accuracy of the new RT code, SORD (Successive ORDers of scattering). We describe capabilities of S...

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Main Authors: Holben, Brent, Korkin, Sergey, Sinyuk, Aliaksandr, Lyapustin, Alexei
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Geophysics
Numerical Analysis
Aerosol Robotic Network
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20160005172
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Summary:We report a new publicly available radiative transfer (RT) code for numerical simulation of polarized light scattering in plane-parallel atmosphere of the Earth. Using 44 benchmark tests, we prove high accuracy of the new RT code, SORD (Successive ORDers of scattering). We describe capabilities of SORD and show run time for each test on two different machines. At present, SORD is supposed to work as part of the Aerosol Robotic NETwork (AERONET) inversion algorithm. For natural integration with the AERONET software, SORD is coded in Fortran 90/95. The code is available by email request from the corresponding (first) author or from ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/skorkin/SORD/.

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