Radiative Processes in the Atmosphere 1100-RPA

Program:
1. Definitions of key quantities and principle of black body radiation
2. Absorption of radiation in the atmosphere
- absorption spectrum of atmospheric gasses
- HITRAN database
- simulation of absorption properties
3. Scattering of radiation in the atmosphere
- Rayleigh scattering
- Lorenz-Mie scattering
- geometric scattering.
- discrete dipole approximation
- simulation of single scattering properties
3. Introduction to radiative transfer equation
- Lambert-Beer low
- general form of the radiative transfer equation
- boundary condition at the top of the atmosphere and at the Earth's surface.
4. Approximate and accurate numerical solutions of radiative transfer equation.
- single scattering approximation
- two streams approximation
- delta-Eddington method
- Monte Carlo methods,
- discrete ordinate method.
5. Radiative transfer models
- MODTRAN,
- Fu-Liou
6. Simulation of short- and longwave fluxed by radiative transfer models
- definition of different atmospheric conditions and simulation scenario
- estimation of radiative forcing