ARTS, the atmospheric radiative transfer simulator, version 2

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1551-1558

  Eriksson, P ^a   Buehler, S A ^b   Davis, C P ^c   Emde, C ^d   Lemke, O ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric radiative transfer; Emission; Polarisation; Remote sensing; Scattering; Sensor modelling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABLES; CORE PART; DISCRETE ORDINATES; EFFICIENT TREATMENT; EMISSION; IN-LINE; ITERATIVE APPROACH; JACOBIANS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MODEL ATMOSPHERE; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; POLARISATION; POLARISATION STATE; PROMINENT FEATURES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SCRIPT LANGUAGES; SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS; SENSOR MODELLING; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D);

POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 79955716864     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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