Methods for solving the equation of radiative transfer through finite thickness layers
Abstract
After recalling the general problem of radiative transfer, the methods of solution for a plane parallel horizontally homogeneous atmosphere are briefly reviewed and a few numerical comparisons are shown. Then the more difficult problems of horizontal inhomogeneities and of sphericity are considered.
- Publication:
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In AGARD Opt. Propagation in the Atmosphere 9 p (SEE N76-29815 20-46
- Pub Date:
- May 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976opa..agarR....L
- Keywords:
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- Aerosols;
- Atmospheric Scattering;
- Inhomogeneity;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Atmospheric Stratification;
- Diffuse Radiation;
- Mathematical Models;
- Optical Paths;
- Geophysics