Whereas most radiative transfer models are developed for a specific instrument, ARTS is one of few models that aims to be generically applicable.[4]
It is designed from basic physical principles and has been used in a wide range of situations. It supports fully polarised radiative transfer calculations in clear-sky or cloudy conditions in 1-D, 2-D, or 3-D geometries,[5]
including the calculations of Jacobians.[4]
Cloudy simulations support liquid and ice clouds with particles of varying sizes and shapes[6]
and supports multiple-scattering simulations.[7]
Absorption is calculated line-by-line, with continua[8]
or using a lookup table.[9]
The user programs ARTS by the means of a simple scripting language.[3]
ARTS is a physics-based model and therefore much slower than many radiative transfer models that are used operationally and is currently unable to simulate solar, visible, or shortwave radiation.
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^Griessbach, Sabine; Hoffman, Lars; Höpfner, Michael; Riese, Martin; Spang, Reinhold (September 2013). "Scattering in infrared radiative transfer: A comparison between the spectrally averaging model JURASSIC and the line-by-line model KOPRA". Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 127: 102–118. Bibcode:2013JQSRT.127..102G. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2013.05.004.
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