Korkin, SergeyLyapustin, AlexeiSinyuk, AliaksandrHolben, Brent2024-09-042024-09-042016-05-04Korkin, 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.https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223423http://hdl.handle.net/11603/35947SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United StatesWe 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.zip13 pagesen-USTHIS 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.PUBLIC DOMAINhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Text