Published July 29, 2020 | Version v1
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rt-mc

  • 1. Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

Description

Ray tracing codes for light scattering at non-spherical particles containing scattering and absorbing inclusions.

 

Contents:

rtmc.f90: Fortran90 code for polyhedral host particle
crystal-example: directory containing results for 'rtmc' run with input file 'rtmc1'


rtellipsoidmc.f90: Fortran90 code for ellipsoidal host particle
ellipsoid-example: directory containing results for 'rtellipsoidmc' run with input file 'rtmcel1'

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References

  • Macke A, Müller J, Raschke E (1996) Single scattering properties of atmospheric ice crystals. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 53, 2813-2825.
  • Macke A, Mishchenko M-I, Cairns B (1996) The influence of inclusions on light scattering by large ice particles. Journal of Geophysical Research 101, 23311-23316.
  • Macke A, Mishchenko M-I (1996) Applicability of regular particle shapes in light scattering calculations for atmospheric ice particles. Applied Optics 35, 4291-4296.
  • Mishchenko M-I, Macke A (1997) Asymmetry parameters of the phase function for isolated and densely packed spherical particles with multiple internal inclusions in the geometrics optics limit. J. Quant. Spectros. Radiat. Transfer 57, 767-794.