The recent literature on satellite remote sensing of air quality is reviewed. 2009 is the 50th
anniversary of the first satellite atmospheric observations. For the first 40 of those years …

libRadtran is a widely used software package for radiative transfer calculations. It allows one
to compute (polarized) radiances, irradiance, and actinic fluxes in the solar and thermal …

The paper presents a review of the far‐infrared (FIR) properties of the Earth's atmosphere
and their role in climate. These properties have been relatively poorly understood, and it is …

The libRadtran software package is a suite of tools for radiative transfer calculations in the
Earth's atmosphere. Its main tool is the uvspec program. It may be used to compute …

Numerical weather prediction models play an increasingly important role in meteorology,
both in short-and medium-range forecasting and global climate change studies. The most …

The current version of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) is presented.
DALES is a large-eddy simulation code designed for studies of the physics of the …

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) cloud product provides three
separate 1 km resolution retrievals of cloud particle effective radii (re), derived from 1.6, 2.1 …

The Radiation Transfer Model Intercomparison (RAMI) initiative benchmarks canopy
reflectance models under well‐controlled experimental conditions. Launched for the first …

This study assesses the impact of dust on surface solar radiation focussing on an extreme
dust event. For this purpose, we exploited the synergy of AERONET measurements and …

A new Monte Carlo atmospheric radiative transfer model is presented which is designed to
support the interpretation of UV/vis/near-IR spectroscopic measurements of scattered Sun …