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DISORT

DISORT - general and versatile plane-parallel radiative transfer program applicable to problems from the ultraviolet to the radar regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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DISORT (Discrete Ordinates Radiative Transfer Program for a Multi-Layered Plane-Parallel Medium) - general and versatile plane-parallel radiative transfer program applicable to problems from the ultraviolet to the radar regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

DISORT is used in many atmospheric radiative transfer codes including Streamer, MODTRAN, RRTM and SBDART.

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  • K. Stamnes, SC. Tsay, W. Wiscombe and K. Jayaweera, Numerically stable algorithm for discrete-ordinate-method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting layered media, Appl Opt 27 (1988) (12), pp. 2502–2509.
  • Z. Lin, S. Stamnes., Z. Jin, I. Laszlo, SC. Tsay, W. Wiscombe, and K. Stamnes. Improved discrete ordinate solutions in the presence of an anisotropically reflecting lower boundary: Upgrades of the DISORT computational tool. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2015) (157), pp. 119–134.
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