RAtmosphere-package: Standard atmospheric parameters for LIDAR inversion

Description Details Author(s) References See Also Examples

Description

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.

Details

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

Author(s)

Gionata Biavati

Maintainer: Gionata Biavati gbiavati@bgc-jena.mpg

References

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.

See Also

standard_atmosphere SZA suncalc betamol betamol_standard

Examples

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

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