4. CARD 1A (REQUIRED) – RADIATIVE TRANSPORT DRIVER CONT’D
CARD 1A inputs enable selection of scattering options, scaling of molecular profiles, customizing of the top-
of-atmosphere (TOA) solar irradiance, specification of data files, and Angstrom Law perturbations of aerosol optical
properties:
CARD 1A: DIS, DISAZM, DISALB, NSTR, SFWHM, CO2MX, H2OSTR, O3STR, C_PROF, LSUNFL,
LBMNAM, LFLTNM, H2OAER, CDTDIR, SOLCON, CDASTM, ASTMC, ASTMX, ASTMO,
AERRH, NSSALB
FORMAT(3A1, I3, F4.0, F10.0, 2A10, 2A1, 4(1X, A1), F10.0, A1, F9.0, 3F10.0, I10)
DIS = t, f (blank), s Used if IMULT = ±1 in CARD 1. Set DIS to TRUE (T or t) to activate the
DISORT discrete ordinate multiple scattering algorithm. If DIS is FALSE (F, f
or blank), the less accurate but faster Isaac‟s two-stream algorithm is used.
New to MODTRAN
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5 is another value for DIS, S (or s). If S is chosen,
DISORT calculations are performed at selected spectral points in the
atmospheric window regions. These handfuls of DISORT radiances are then
used to scale Isaac‟s values for the entire wavelength region.
DISAZM = t, f or blank Azimuth dependence flag used with DISORT. Set DISAZM to TRUE (T or t)
to include azimuth dependence in the line-of-sight multiple scatter solar. Since
this option increases computation time, DISAZM should be set to FALSE (F, f
or blank) if only vertical fluxes are needed, if solar or viewing zenith angle is
near vertical, or if solar multiple scattering is a small radiance component (e.g.
for LWIR calculations).
DISALB = t, f or blank If DISALB is set to TRUE (T or t) with DISORT multiple scattering AND
solar scatter is on (IEMSCT=2 or IEMSCT=4), MODTRAN
®
will calculate the
spectral spherical albedo of the atmosphere and diffuse transmittance for the
line-of-sight and sun-to-ground paths, as described in Appendix F.
NSTR = 2, 4, 8, 16, Number of streams to be used by DISORT. Using high NSTR values generally
32, 64, 128, improves accuracy but slows computation. NSTR = 8 is although more
256, or 512 streams may be desirable if modeling highly forward peaked scatterers.
Currently, MODTRAN is delivered with the maximum allowed number of
streams (MXCMU in file PARAMS.h) set to 32. MXCMU must be increased
and the source recompiled to use more than this value (see the DISORT
documentation at ftp://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/wiscombe/Discr_ord/) for
further details.
SFWHM The FWHM (Full Width at Half Maximum) of the triangular scanning function
used to smooth Top-Of-Atmosphere (TOA) solar irradiance data
[wavenumbers].
= 0. Use default TOA solar data:
DATA/SUNp1kuruzc2005.bin for the 0.1 cm
-1
band model;
DATA/SUN01kuruzc2005.dat for the 1.0 cm
-1
band model;
DATA/SUN01kuruzc2005.dat degraded with a 5 cm
-1
FWHM triangular
slit for the 5.0 cm
-1
band model; and
DATA/SUN01kuruzc2005.dat degraded with a 15 cm
-1
FWHM
triangular slit for the 15.0 cm
-1
band model.
> 0. Spectral resolution in wavenumbers used to degrade data from a TOA solar
irradiance data file utilizing a triangular slit spectral response function.
< 0. Spectral resolution set to |SFWHM| with spectrally convolved data written to
an output file. The output data file is given the name
“<rootname>_sY_XXXX.dat”. If input LSUNFL equals '1', '2', '3', '4' or '5',
then character Y is set to LSUNFL; otherwise Y is set to '0'. The character
string XXXX equals int(|SFWHM|) unless a 0.1 cm
-1
band model calculation is