Extension of SCIATRAN by coupling atmospheric oceanic radiative transfer: First results of comparisons for in-situ and satellite data.


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The radiative transfer model SCIATRAN [V. V. Rozanov et al., 2002; A. Rozanov et al., 2005, 2008] has been developed to model atmospheric radiative transfer. This model is mainly applied to improve the analysis of high spectrally resolved satellite data as, for instance, data of the instrument SCIAMACHY (Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY) onboard the ENVISAT satellite. Within the present study, SCIATRAN has been extended by taking radiative processes as well as at the atmosphere-water interface as within the water into account, which were caused by water itself and its constituents. Comparisons of this extended version of SCIATRAN for in-situ data and for MERIS satellite informationyield first results, which will be shown. It is expected that the new version of SCIATRAN, including the coupling of atmospheric and oceanic radiative transfer, will widen the use of high spectrally resolved data in the form of achieving new findings, such as information about ocean biooptics and biogeochemistry like, for example, biomass of different phytoplankton groups orCDOM uorescence. In addition, it is awaited that the new version improves the retrieval ofatmospheric trace gases above oceanic waters.



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COSPAR 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Bremen, GermanyJuly 2010..
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Blum, M. , Rozanov, V. , Burrows, J. P. and Bracher, A. (2010): Extension of SCIATRAN by coupling atmospheric oceanic radiative transfer: First results of comparisons for in-situ and satellite data. , COSPAR 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Bremen, GermanyJuly 2010. .


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