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Rayleigh scattering in planetary atmospheres

✍ Scribed by Viik Tõnu

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
791 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-0794

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✦ Synopsis

The vector equation of radiative transfer is solved both for conservative and non-conservative planetary atmospheres using the method of discrete ordinates. The atmosphere, bounded by a Lambert bottom, is considered plane-parallel: and homogeneous. The scattering in the atmosphere obeys the Rayleigh or Rayleigh-Cabannes law. The compiled package of FORTRAN codes allows us to find the Stokes parameters for such an atmosphere at arbitrary optical depth.

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