Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1511-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1511-2023
Model description paper
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14 Mar 2023
Model description paper |  | 14 Mar 2023

SCIATRAN software package (V4.6): update and further development of aerosol, clouds, surface reflectance databases and models

Linlu Mei, Vladimir Rozanov, Alexei Rozanov, and John P. Burrows

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This paper summarizes recent developments of aerosol, cloud and surface reflectance databases and models in the framework of the software package SCIATRAN. These updates and developments extend the capabilities of the radiative transfer modeling, especially by accounting for different kinds of vertical inhomogeneties. Vertically inhomogeneous clouds and different aerosol types can be easily accounted for within SCIATRAN (V4.6). The widely used surface models and databases are now available.