SBDART: A Research and Teaching Software Tool for Plane-Parallel Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2101-2114

  Ricchiazzi, Paul ^a   Yang, Shiren ^a   Gautier, Catherine ^a   Sowle, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0000733931     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<2101:SARATS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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