Revised and extended benchmark results for Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in spherical atmospheres
| dc.contributor.author | Korkin, Sergey | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yang, Eun-Su | |
| dc.contributor.author | Spurr, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Emde, Claudia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Krotkov, Nickolay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vasilkov, Alexander | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haffner, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mok, Jungbin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lyapustin, Alexei | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-07-20T18:46:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-07-20T18:46:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | While most of traditional Earth-atmosphere satellite remote sensing relies on radiative transfer (RT) in the plane parallel geometry, effects of sphericity are important at high sun and view zenith angles. Broad understanding of these effects is limited and, contrary to the plane-parallel case, finding accurate numerical results to test spherical RT codes is not easy. This paper aims to partially fill in this gap. Using the full-spherical RT code MYSTIC (Monte Carlo), and the plane-parallel RT code VLIDORT (discrete ordinates) corrected for atmospheric sphericity in the single and multiple scattering, we reproduced with better accuracy and extended the benchmark results by Adams & Kattawar [1]. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The work of S. Korkin was supported by the NASA's Earth Science Division under Grant 17-TASNPP17–0116, and in part by the USRA Internal Research & Development (R&D) program. He is also thankful to James Limbacher (SSAI and NASA GSFC) for discussion of many related topics from RT and Monte Carlo, to parallel computing in Python, and to Corey Bettenhausen (Adnet and NASA GSFC) for help with libRadtran setup. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407320303976 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 16 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2wla0-42so | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Korkin, Sergey, et al. "Revised and extended benchmark results for Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in spherical atmospheres." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 254, 107181 (11 August, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107181. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107181 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/28813 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC GESTAR II Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | 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. | en_US |
| dc.rights | Public Domain Mark 1.0 | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Revised and extended benchmark results for Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in spherical atmospheres | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4690-3232 | en_US |