ScattPy: A new Python package for light scattering computations

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1733-1740

  Vinokurov, A A ^a,b   Il'in, V B ^a,b,c   Farafonov, V G ^a  

^a SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF AEROSPACE INSTRUMENTATION   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Light scattering; Python; SciPy

Indexed keywords

DATA INPUT; EQUIVALENT CODES; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; MODERN LANGUAGES; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; OUTPUT DATA; PERFORMANCE LOSS; PHASE FUNCTIONS; PYTHON; RECOMPILING; SCIPY; TIME CONSUMPTION; USER FRIENDLY;

LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTION; SCATTERING;

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79958729410     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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