DISORT (Discrete Ordinates Radiative Transfer Program for a Multi-Layered Plane-Parallel Medium) - general and versatile plane-parallel radiative transfer program applicable to problems from the ultraviolet to the radar regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Contents

• See also
• References
• External links

DISORT is used in many atmospheric radiative transfer codes including Streamer, MODTRAN, RRTM and SBDART.

See also

• List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes
• Atmospheric radiative transfer codes
• MODTRAN
• Streamer: A Radiative Transfer Model
• Rapid radiative transfer model

References

• K. Stamnes, SC. Tsay, W. Wiscombe and K. Jayaweera, Numerically stable algorithm for discrete-ordinate-method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting layered media, Appl Opt 27 (1988) (12), pp. 2502–2509.
• Z. Lin, S. Stamnes., Z. Jin, I. Laszlo, SC. Tsay, W. Wiscombe, and K. Stamnes. Improved discrete ordinate solutions in the presence of an anisotropically reflecting lower boundary: Upgrades of the DISORT computational tool. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2015) (157), pp. 119–134.

External links

• LLLab DISORT Website, includes link to download
• Second version of the "Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean" book website