Atmospheric radiative transfer codes

Atmospheric radiative transfer codes - calculate radiative transfer of electromagnetic radiation through Earth's atmosphere.

Radiative transfer codes are used in broad range of applications related to predictions. For example, climate modeling use simplified version of atmospheric radiative transfer codes to predict radiative transfer of solar and infrared radiation including radiative forcing of greenhouse gases, aerosols and clouds. Radiative transfer codes are also used in broad range of applications related to numerical weather and climateIn such applications radiative transfer codes are often called radiation parameterization. In these applications the radiative transfer codes are used in forward sense, i.e. on the basis of known properties of the atmosphere one calculates heating rates, radiative fluxes, and radiances.

Radiative transfer codes are employed in to calculate radiances observable by sensors in space. These applications often invoke inverse radiative transfer codes which calculate atmospheric properties on the basis of known radiances.

ee also

*List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes
*Optical properties of water and ice
*Remote sensing

References

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