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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2692-2706 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |
Volume | 38 |
Issue number | 12 |
State | Published - 1981 |