A new code SORD for simulation of polarized light scattering in the Earth atmosphere

Sergey Korkin; Alexei Lyapustin; Aliaksandr Sinyuk; Brent Holben

doi:10.1117/12.2223423

4 May 2016 A new code SORD for simulation of polarized light scattering in the Earth atmosphere

Sergey Korkin, Alexei Lyapustin, Aliaksandr Sinyuk, Brent Holben

Proceedings Volume 9853, Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing XII; 985305 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223423
Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

We report a new publicly available radiative transfer (RT) code for numerical simulation of polarized light scattering in plane-parallel Earth atmosphere. Using 44 benchmark tests, we prove high accuracy of the new RT code, SORD (Successive ORDers of scattering^{1, 2}). We describe capabilities of SORD and show run time for each test on two different machines. At present, SORD is supposed to work as part of the Aerosol Robotic NETwork³ (AERONET) inversion algorithm. For natural integration with the AERONET software, SORD is coded in Fortran 90/95. The code is available by email request from the corresponding (first) author or from ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/skorkin/SORD/ or ftp://maiac.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/SORD.zip

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Sergey Korkin, Alexei Lyapustin, Aliaksandr Sinyuk, and Brent Holben "A new code SORD for simulation of polarized light scattering in the Earth atmosphere", Proc. SPIE 9853, Polarization: Measurement, Analysis, and Remote Sensing XII, 985305 (4 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223423

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