A new code SORD for simulation of polarized light scattering in the Earth atmosphere
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2016-05-04
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Korkin, Sergey, Alexei Lyapustin, Aliaksandr Sinyuk, and Brent Holben. “A New Code SORD for Simulation of Polarized Light Scattering in the Earth Atmosphere.” In Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing XII, 9853:36–48. SPIE, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223423.
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THIS WORK WAS WRITTEN AS PART OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S OFFICIAL DUTIES AS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND IS THEREFORE A WORK OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. IN ACCORDANCE WITH 17 U.S.C. 105, NO COPYRIGHT PROTECTION IS AVAILABLE FOR SUCH WORKS UNDER U.S. LAW.
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We report a new publicly available radiative transfer (RT) code for numerical simulation of polarized light scattering in plane-parallel Earth atmosphere. Using 44 benchmark tests, we prove high accuracy of the new RT code, SORD (Successive ORDers of scattering¹,²). 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 NETwork³ (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/ or ftp://maiac.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/SORD.zip