Influence of aerosols, clouds, and sunglint on polarization spectra of Earthshine

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Table 1

Model setups for simulations shown in Sects. 2–6.

Section	Model	Molecules	Aerosols	Clouds	Surface	ALIS	Sample
	geometry						resolution


2.2	3D¹	US-standard³	–	3D ECMWF⁶	2D MODIS⁷	–	100 × 100
2.3	1D²	McClatchey⁴	–	–	Lambertian	yes	1 × 1
					or ocean-BPDF
4.1	1D²	MLS³	–	–	black surface	yes	1 × 1
5.1	1D²	MLS³	OPAC⁵	–	Lambertian	yes	1 × 1
5.2	1D²	MLS³	–	1D layer	black surface	yes	1 × 1
5.2	1D²	MLS³	–	1D layer	Lambertian	yes	1 × 1
6.1	1D²	MLS³	–	1D layer	Lambertian	yes	1 × 1
				or ocean-BPDF
6.2.1	3D¹	US-standard³	–	3D ECMWF⁶	2D MODIS⁷	–	500 × 500
6.2.1 (O₂A)	3D¹	US-standard³	–	3D ECMWF⁶	2D MODIS⁷	yes	1 × 1
6.2.2	3D¹	US-standard³	–	3D ECMWF⁶	ocean-BPDF	–	100 × 100
6.2.2 (O₂A)	3D¹	US-standard³	–	3D ECMWF⁶	ocean-BPDF	yes	1 × 1

Notes.

⁽¹⁾

Spherical planet with inhomogeneous atmosphere in three spatial dimensions;

⁽²⁾

spherical planet, spherically symmetric atmosphere (horizontally homogeneous, vertically inhomogeneous);

⁽³⁾

molecular atmosphere with 51 vertical layers (Anderson et al. 1986);

⁽⁴⁾

molecular atmosphere with 16 vertical layers, as defined in Stam (2008), Table 1;

⁽⁵⁾

OPAC aerosol, standard 1D profiles from libRadtran (Emde et al. 2016), 13 vertical layers;

⁽⁶⁾

liquid and ice water cloud fields from ECMWF model, 720 × 360 × 20 grid cells covering the whole planet;

⁽⁷⁾

global MODIS surface albedo data, 720 × 360 ground pixels, Lambertian.

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