A new look at the discrete ordinate method for radiative transfer calculations in anisotropically scattering atmospheres. II: intensity computations.

K. Stamnes, H. Dale

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Abstract

The recently developed matrix method to solve the discrete ordinate approximation to the radiative transfer equation in plane parallel geometry (Stamnes and Swanson, 1981) is extended to compute the full azimuthal dependence of the intensity. The results of the intensity computations are summarized by presenting three-dimensional 'stack plots' of the intensity as a function of polar and azimuthal angles. We also show that for flux calculations four streams suffice to obtain 1% accuracy, while eight streams yield an accuracy better than 0.1%.-from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2692-2706
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Volume38
Issue number12
StatePublished - 1981

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