Atmospheric transmittance of an absorbing gas .5. Improvements to the OPTRAN approach

被引:69
作者
McMillin, LM [1 ]
Crone, LJ [1 ]
Kleespies, TJ [1 ]
机构
[1] AMERICAN UNIV,DEPT STAT,WASHINGTON,DC 20016
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 36期
关键词
transmittance; brightness temperature; atmospheric radiance; radiative transfer; absorber amount; OPTRAN;
D O I
10.1364/AO.34.008396
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Improvements to a fast and accurate transmittance-calculation procedure, Optical Path TRANsmittance (OPTRAN), are described. The previous version computed a transmittance ratio for an absorbing layer. It required special attention to the interpolation methodology. The new approach reported here computes the absorption coefficient for an absorbing layer. This modified approach is not only simpler but also runs in one twentieth the time of the original OPTRAN approach with the same accuracy. (C) 1995 Optical Society of America
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页码:8396 / 8399
页数:4
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