Polarized Radiative Transfer Modeling

Aplane-parallelpolarizedradiativetransfermodelisdescribed.Themodelisusedtocomputetheradianceexitingaverticallyinhomogeneousatmospherecontainingrandomlyorientedparticles.Bothsolarandthermalsourcesofradiationareconsidered.Adirectmethodofincorporatingthepolarizedscatteringinformationiscombined