GARLIC - A general purpose atmospheric radiative transfer line-by-line infrared-microwave code: Implementation and evaluation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 137, Issue , 2014, Pages 29-50

  Schreier, Franz ^a   Gimeno García, Sebastián ^a   Hedelt, Pascal ^a   Hess, Michael ^a,b   Mendrok, Jana ^c   Vasquez, Mayte ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b RASCIN   (Germany)

^c LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Infrared; Line by line; Microwave; Molecular absorption; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BEER; FUNCTIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED; IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS; LINE-BY-LINE; MOLECULAR ABSORPTION; VERIFICATION-AND-VALIDATION;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED IMAGERY; INVERSE PROBLEM; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 84894083674     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2013.11.018     Document Type: Article

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