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Using a 3-D radiative transfer Monte–Carlo model to assess radiative effects on polarized reflectances above cloud scenes

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In the near future, more and more spaceborne or airborne instruments will be able to measure polarized reflectance issued from the atmosphere. To give some examples, currently, the POLarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectance instrument POLDER3/ PARASOL, which is the successor of POLDER2/ADEOS2 and POLDER/ADEOS (Deschamps et al., 1994) measures, since 2005, the polarized signal in the visible spectral range with up to 14 viewing directions. The airborne version of this instrument, called OSIRIS (observing system including polarization in the solar infrared spectrum (Auriol et al., 2008)), is nowadays extended to the near-infrared range and will maybe, in the future, generate a spaceborne version. The Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), the spaceborne version of the Research Scanning Radiometer (RSP) will be able to measure reflected total and polarized light in visible, near infrared, and short-wave infrared and should be launched in the framework of the Glory mission in 2010 (Mishchenko et al., 2007).

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  1. Laboratoire d’Optique Atmospherique UMR CNRS 8518, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    C. Cornet

  2. Laboratoire d’Optique Atmospherique UMR CNRS 8518, Université de Lille 1, 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    L. C-Labonnote

  3. Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique UMR CNRS 6016, Université Blaise Pascal, 63177, Aubière, France

    F. Szczap

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Cornet, C., C-Labonnote, L., Szczap, F. (2010). Using a 3-D radiative transfer Monte–Carlo model to assess radiative effects on polarized reflectances above cloud scenes. In: Kokhanovsky, A. (eds) Light Scattering Reviews 5. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10336-0_3

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