Links and Information of Interest
Book Errata
Here is a downloadable
PDF file containing a list of the typos we have found so far in
the book.
Download DISORT
The 2.0 version of DISORT is available from
this site at NASA
(ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/wiscombe/Multiple_Scatt/).
You will also find a report that describes the code and explains
its usage there.
Online Appendices
F Elementary
Concepts (solid angle and the Dirac delta-function) (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix F)
G Primer
on Absorption and Scattering (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix G)
H Electromagnetic
Radiation: The Plane Wave (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix H)
I Representation
of Polarized Light (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix I)
J Scaling
Transformation for Anisotropic Scattering (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix J)
K The
Discrete Ordinate: Numerical Aspects (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix K)
L Spherical
Shell Geometry (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix L)
M Reciprocity
for the BDRF (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix M)
N Isolation
of the Azimuthal Dependence (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix N)
O The
Streaming Term in Spherical Geometry (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix O)
P Reciprocity,
Duality and the Effects of Surface Reflection (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix P)
Q Removal
of Overflow Problems in the Intensity Formula (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix Q)
R Integration
of the Planck function across an arbitrary spectral interval (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix R)
S Computation
of the Normalized Associated Polynomials (pdf)
(Download/view
postscript version of Appendix S)