Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; Ministery of Infrastructure and the Environment

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Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer in a Stratified Medium with First Order Rotational Raman Scattering
2008
by R. Spurr (RT Solutions Inc. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA), J.F. de Haan (KNMI), R. van Oss (KNMI), A. Vasilkov (SSAI, Lanham, MD, USA),
Abstract

Rotational Raman scattering (RRS) by air molecules in the Earth's atmosphere is predominantly responsible for the Ring effect: Fraunhofer and absorption-feature filling-in observed in UV/visible backscatter spectra. Accurate determination of RRS effects requires detailed radiative transfer (RT) treatment. In this paper, we demonstrate that the discrete-ordinate RT equations may be solved analytically in a multi-layer multiple scattering atmosphere in the presence of RRS treated as a first-order perturbation. Based on this solution, we develop a generic pseudo-spherical RT model LIDORT-RRS for the determination of backscatter radiances with RRS included; the model will generate output at arbitrary viewing geometry and optical thickness. Model comparisons with measured RRS filling-in effects from OMI observations show very good agreement. We examine telluric RRS filling-in effects for satellite-view backscatter radiances in a spectral range covering the ozone Huggins absorption bands. The model is also used to investigate calcium H and K Fraunhofer filling-in through cloud layers in the atmosphere.

Biblographic data
Spurr, R., J.F. de Haan, R. van Oss and A. Vasilkov, Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer in a Stratified Medium with First Order Rotational Raman Scattering
J. Quant. Spectros. Rad. Transf., 2008, 109, 3, 404-425, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.08.011.
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