Zenith Transmittance

RFM Examples

13JUL23

Description

Calculate vertical transmittance spectrum through the US Std Atmosphere.

*FLG section specifies the ZEN flag for an upward path through a plane parallel atmosphere, and the TRA flag to output the transmittance spectrum.

The *GAS section specifies that H2O, O3, N2O and F12 (CFC-12) are to be included, while the *(12) adds any other gases that might be significant in this spectral range (from rfm.log it can be seen that it chooses to add CH4, F22 (HCFC-22), F11 (CFC-11) and CO2). Although N2O is included because it was explicitly specified by the user, the RFM wouldn't have added it itself.

Since this is a plane parallel atmosphere calculation, the path is specified by the *SEC section marker (although *TAN could still be used) and contains the secant of the slant angle. Here, the value 1.0 defines a vertical path (1.0 = 1/cos(0°))

Driver Table

*HDR 13JUL23 RFM Example: zenith transmittance *FLG ZEN TRA *SPC 1100 1110 0.1 *GAS H2O O3 N2O F12 *(12) *ATM ../atm/usa.atm *SEC 1.0 *HIT ../hit/hitran_2016.bin *XSC ../xsc/*.xsc *END

Output Files

Output Spectrum

[plot.py]