CRTM

Community Radiative Transfer Model

Authors

JOINT CENTER FOR SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION

Papers

Ding, S., Yang, P., Weng, F., Liu, Q., Han, Y., van Delst, P., Li, J., and Baum, B.: Validation of the community radiative transfer model, 10 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 112, 1050–1064, https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JQSRT.2010.11.009, 2011.

The CRTM is composed of four important modules for gaseous transmittance, surface emission and reflection, cloud and aerosol absorption and scattering, and a solver for a radiative transfer. The CRTM was designed to meet users' needs. Many options are available for users to choose from: input surface emissivity; select a subset of channels for a given sensor; inclusion of scattering calculations; computation of upwelling radiance at aircraft altitudes; computation of aerosol optical depth only; and threading of the CRTM. 

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