In:
Geoscientific Model Development, Copernicus GmbH, Vol. 16, No. 5 ( 2023-03-14), p. 1511-1536
Kurzfassung:
Abstract. Since the initiation of development at the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, in 1994, the radiative transfer model SCIATRAN (formerly GOMETRAN) has been continuously improved and new versions have been released (Rozanov et al., 1997, 2002, 2005, 2014, 2017). In the course of development, the
SCIATRAN software package became capable of simulating radiative transfer processes through the Earth's atmosphere or coupled atmosphere–ocean system with a variety of approaches to treat the sphericity of the atmosphere (plane-parallel, pseudo-spherical, approximately spherical and full-spherical solutions) in both scalar and vector modes. Supported by a variety of built-in databases and parameterizations, these capabilities made SCIATRAN widely
used for various remote-sensing applications related to the retrieval of atmospheric trace gases and characteristics of aerosols, clouds and surfaces. This paper presents an overview of the cloud, aerosol and surface (CAS) databases and models implemented
in the SCIATRAN software package (V4.6) and provides some recommendations on their usage.
The new implementations offer potential users a flexible interface to perform radiative transfer simulations:
(1) accounting for multilayer liquid water, ice and mixed-phase clouds; (2) employing typical aerosol-type parameterizations (including vertical variability) used in the satellite and model communities as well as updated databases;
(3) including various surface bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) and albedo models for land, vegetation, ocean, snow and melt ponds on sea ice. The most recent version of the radiative transfer model SCIATRAN is freely available at the website of the IUP, University of Bremen: http://www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de/sciatran (last access: November 2022).
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1991-9603
DOI:
10.5194/gmd-16-1511-2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Copernicus GmbH
Publikationsdatum:
2023
ZDB Id:
2456725-5
