Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-323-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-323-2020
Research article
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30 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2020

kCARTA: a fast pseudo line-by-line radiative transfer algorithm with analytic Jacobians, fluxes, nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium, and scattering for the infrared

Sergio DeSouza-Machado, L. Larrabee Strow, Howard Motteler, and Scott Hannon

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The current instruments being used for weather forecasting and climate require accurate radiative transfer codes to process the acquired data. In addition the codes are becoming more realistic, as they can now account for the effects of cloud and aerosols, rather than only simulating radiances for a clear sky. We describe a fast, accurate, and general purpose code that we have developed to help model data from these instruments.
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