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Fast and Accurate Hybrid Stream PCRTMSOLAR Radiative Transfer Model for Reflected Solar Spectrum Simulation in the Cloudy AtmosphereA hybrid stream PCRTM-SOLAR model has been proposed for fast and accurate radiative transfer simulation. It calculates the reflected solar (RS) radiances with a fast coarse way and then, with the help of a pre-saved matrix, transforms the results to obtain the desired high accurate RS spectrum. The methodology has been demonstrated with the hybrid stream discrete ordinate (HSDO) radiative transfer (RT) model. The HSDO method calculates the monochromatic radiances using a 4-stream discrete ordinate method, where only a small number of monochromatic radiances are simulated with both 4-stream and a larger N-stream (N ≥ 16) discrete ordinate RT algorithm. The accuracy of the obtained channel radiance is comparable to the result from N-stream moderate resolution atmospheric transmission version 5 (MODTRAN5). The root-mean-square errors are usually less than 5x10(exp -4) mW/sq cm/sr/cm. The computational speed is three to four-orders of magnitude faster than the medium speed correlated-k option MODTRAN5. This method is very efficient to simulate thousands of RS spectra under multi-layer clouds/aerosols and solar radiation conditions for climate change study and numerical weather prediction applications.
Document ID
20170001023
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Yang, Qiguang
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Liu, Xu
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Wu, Wan
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Kizer, Susan
(Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, VA, United States)
Baize, Rosemary R.
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
January 31, 2017
Publication Date
November 1, 2016
Publication Information
Publication: Optics Express
Volume: 24
Issue: 26
e-ISSN: 1094-4087
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
NF1676L-25138
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 304029-01.04.02.02.04
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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