Eduard Chemyakin, Snorre Stamnes, James Allen, Sharon P Burton, Johnathan Hair, Chris Hostetler, Jacek Chowdhary, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven, Brian Cairns
Coupled atmosphere and ocean remote sensing retrievals of aerosol, cloud, and oceanic phytoplankton microphysical properties, such as those carried out by the NASA Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, involve single-scattering calculations that are time consuming. Lookup tables (LUTs) exist to speed up these calculations for aerosol and water droplets in the atmosphere. In our new Lorenz-Mie lookup table, we tabulate single scattering by an ensemble of coated isotropic spheres representing oceanic phytoplankton at wavelengths from 0...
May 1, 2024: Optics Letters