how to obtain total downward or upward transmitance and path radiance?

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how to obtain total downward or upward transmitance and path radiance? #42

Closed lwk1542 closed 5 years ago

lwk1542 commented 5 years ago

we can only obtain downward and upward transmittance of Rayleigh scattering from current function

robintw commented 5 years ago

Path radiance is the same as the atmospheric intrinsic radiance, and so can be retrieved as s.outputs.atmospheric_intrinsic_radiance.

Transmittances can be combined by multiplying them together, so to get the total downward or upward transmittance, you can multiply together the global gas transmittance and the total scattering transmittance.