A spherical model for computing polarized radiation in Titan's atmosphere

Details A spherical model for computing polarized radiation in Titan's atmosphere A spherical model for computing polarized radiation in Titan's atmosphere

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003p%26ss...51..977s&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Issue 14-15, p. 977-989.

Physics

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Titan, Huygens

Scientific paper

The Huygens descent through Titan's atmosphere in January 2005 will provide invaluable information about Titan's atmospheric composition and aerosol properties. The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) will perform upward and downward looking radiation observations at various spectral ranges and spatial resolutions. To prepare the DISR data interpretation we have developed a new model for radiation transfer in Titan's atmosphere. The model solves for the full three-dimensional polarized radiation field in spherical geometry. However, the atmosphere itself is assumed to be spherically symmetric. The model is initialized with a fast-to-compute plane-parallel solution based on the doubling and adding algorithm that incorporates a spherical correction for the incoming direct solar beam. The full three-dimensional problem is then solved using the characteristics method combined with the Picard iterative approximation as described in Rozanov et al. (J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 69 (2001) 491). Aerosol scattering properties are calculated with a new microphysical model. In this formulation, aerosols are assumed to be fractal aggregates and include methane gas absorption embedded into the extinction coefficient. The resulting radiance of the model atmosphere's internal field is presented for two prescribed DISR wavelengths.

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