Fast code to compute polarized radiation transfer in the atmosphere-ocean and atmosphere-Earth systems

Author

Chaikovskaya, L.I. ; Katsev, I.L. ; Prikhach, A.S. ; Zege, E.P.

Author_Institution

Stepanov Inst. of Phys., Acad. of Sci., Minsk, Byelorussia

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1398

Abstract

Develops a fast program to simulate the transfer of polarized light in the atmosphere-ocean and atmosphere-underlying surface systems. The program language is C++. It runs under Windows NT and Windows 95. This program is a convenient tool to study various problems in geophysics concerning the radiative transfer and polarization of light. All 16 elements of Green´s matrix satisfying the vector radiative transfer equations are computed, thus providing a possibility to study polarization of light in scattering media originated by a source with any polarization

Keywords

atmospheric radiation; light polarisation; oceanography; radiative transfer; Green matrix; Windows 95; Windows NT; atmosphere-Earth system; atmosphere-ocean system; atmosphere-underlying surface system; fast C++ code; geophysics; light polarization; polarized light; polarized radiation transfer; radiative transfer; scattering media; vector radiative transfer equations; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Earth; Oceans; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical surface waves; Optical variables control; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5207-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1999.774643

Filename

774643