Atmosphere: radiative properties#
An atmospheric radiative property data set provides collision (absorption, extinction and scattering) coefficient and albedo values within the atmosphere.
Data access#
Atmospheric radiative property data sets are generated by the
RadProfile.eval_dataset()
method.
Structure#
Atmospheric radiative property data sets include four data variables:
the absorption coefficient (
sigma_a
),the extinction coefficient (
sigma_t
),the scattering coefficient (
sigma_s
),the albedo (
albedo
),
the wavelength (
w
),the layer altitude (
z_layer
),
and one non-dimension coordinate:
the level altitude (
z_level
).
All data variables are tabulated against w
and z_layer
.