Summary of the lecture (10th February 2011)

Exam (17 February 2011)

This list is by far not complete. It includes some literature which has been used for the lecture.

• Zdunkowski et al., Radiation in the atmosphere (2007)
• DISORT report
• Chandrasekhar, Radiative transfer (1960)

• Hansen and Travis, Light scattering in planetary atmospheres (1974)

• Fu and Liou, On the correlated k-distribution method for radiative transfer in nonhomogeneous atmospheres (1992)

• Running libRadtran
• Shell script basics

21.10.2010 / 28.10.2010 : Exercises 1-3

25.11.2010 / 02.12.2010 : Exercises 4-13

13.01.2011 / 20.01.2011 : Exercises 14-20

1. Planck radiation

2. Solar irradiance spectrum

3. Outgoing longwave radiation

4. UV irradiance spectrum (Abdul Salam/Martin)

5. Legendre decomposition of Heney Greenstein phase function (Daniel/Florian/Benjamin)

6. DOM: Impact of number of streams on clearsky radiance field at surface (Andreas/Isabelle)

7. Legendre decomposition of Mie phase function and delta scaling

8. DOM: Impact of delta scaling and intensity correction on radiance field at top of atmosphere (Bettina/Nina/Fabian)

9. Irradiance and radiance at surface below a water cloud with and without delta scaling

10. Impact on cloud droplet size on radiance field, visibility of cloudbow (Petra/Heiner)

11. Glory simulation

12. Ice clouds - halo and crystal shape (Sebastian/Hanna)

14. Extinction efficiency for single particle and for particle size distribution (Claudia)

15. Sensitivity of optical properties on particle size distribution (effective variance) (Petra/Heiner/Sebastian)

16. Optical properties of liquid water for various effective radii (Silvia/Anja/Natalie)

17. Scattering phase function as function of particle size (water cloud) (Daniel/Florian/Benjamin)

18. Optical properties of ice for various effective radii (Abdul Salam/Martin)

13. TOA radiance at 10 μm as function of cloud height (Silvia/Anja/Natalie)

19. Remote sensing of cloud optical thickness and effective radius (Bettina/Nina/Fabian)

20. Cirrus cloud detection (Andreas/Isabelle)