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A new approach of the adding method for the computations of emergent radiation of an inhomogeneous plane-parallel planetary atmosphere

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The procedure of computing the intensity and the polarization parameters of radiation diffusely reflected and transmitted by an inhomogeneous, plane-parallel planetary atmosphere is discussed with the aid of the adding method. If the atmosphere is simulated by a number of homogeneous sublayers (aerosols and ozone may be included), the matrices of radiation diffusely reflected and transmitted by the atmosphere can be expressed in terms of these matrices of sublayers by using only a couple of iterative equations with the polarity effect of radiation. This procedure is to be extended to the model atmosphere bounded by the surface reflector with a quite arbitrary phase matrix.

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    Tsutomu Takashima

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Takashima, T. A new approach of the adding method for the computations of emergent radiation of an inhomogeneous plane-parallel planetary atmosphere. Astrophys Space Sci 36, 319–328 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00645257

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