RAtmosphere-package: Standard atmospheric parameters for LIDAR inversion
In RAtmosphere: Standard Atmospheric profiles

Description Details Author(s) References See Also Examples

This package provide an easy way to produce atmospheric profiles of Pressure, Temperature and Density according to the standard atmosphere 1976. It provides also: profiles of molecular volume backscattering coefficients for standard atmosphere and, for specified temperature and pressure profiles; approximated estimations of sunset, sunrise and solar zenith angle.

Package:	RAtmosphere
Type:	Package
Version:	1.1
Date:	2014-01-15
License:	GPL
LazyLoad:	yes

Gionata Biavati

Maintainer: Gionata Biavati gbiavati@bgc-jena.mpg

Standard Atmosphere: http://scipp.ucsc.edu/outreach/balloon/atmos/1976 Standard Atmosphere.htm

Solar Zenith Angle Calculations: http://solardat.uoregon.edu/SolarRadiationBasics.html

Sunrize and Sunset: Teets, D.A. 2003. Predicting sunrise and sunset times, The College Mathematics Journal 34(4):317-321.

standard_atmosphere SZA suncalc betamol betamol_standard

require(RAtmosphere)
z<-10*(0:1000)
plot(standard_atmosphere(z,vout=2),z,
      xlab='Pressure Pa',
      ylab='Altitude [m]',
      main='Profile of Pressure')