ARTS, the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator – version 2.2, the planetary toolbox edition

This article describes the latest stable release (version 2.2) of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator (ARTS), a public domain software for radiative transfer simulations in the thermal spectral range (microwave to infrared). The main feature of this release is a planetary toolbox that allow...

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Published in:Geoscientific Model Development 2018-04, Vol.11 (4), p.1537-1556
Main Authors: Buehler, Stefan A, Mendrok, Jana, Eriksson, Patrick, Perrin, Agnès, Larsson, Richard, Lemke, Oliver
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
Atmospheric radiation
Codes
Computer simulation
Earth
Earth Sciences
Energy
Faraday effect
Gas absorption
General circulation models
Geometry
Jupiter
Line spectra
Mars
Mathematical models
Measurement techniques
Meteorological satellites
Microwave sounding
Oxygen
Planets
Public domain
Radiative transfer
Rotation
Satellite temperature
Satellites
Sciences of the Universe
Sensors
Simulation
Simulators
Software
Solar system
Temperature sensors
Venus
Zeeman effect
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Summary:This article describes the latest stable release (version 2.2) of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulator (ARTS), a public domain software for radiative transfer simulations in the thermal spectral range (microwave to infrared). The main feature of this release is a planetary toolbox that allows simulations for the planets Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, in addition to Earth. This required considerable model adaptations, most notably in the area of gaseous absorption calculations. Other new features are also described, notably radio link budgets (including the effect of Faraday rotation that changes the polarization state) and the treatment of Zeeman splitting for oxygen spectral lines. The latter is relevant, for example, for the various operational microwave satellite temperature sensors of the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) family.
ISSN:1991-9603
1991-959X
1991-962X
1991-9603
1991-962X
1991-959X
DOI:10.5194/gmd-11-1537-2018