| Abstract: | A standard problem of radiative transfer theory — calculating the diffuse reflection and transmission of radiation by a plane
scattering atmosphere — is considered. The recently proposed albedoshift method is used to calculate the X and Y functions
(and the H function) for the case of anisotropic scattering with a Henyey-Greenstein indicatrix. The method enables one to
“suppress” scattering and obtain iterative solutions of high accuracy in only a few iterations, even when the mean number
of photon scatterings in the atmosphere is very large.
Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 41. No. 4, pp. 623–646, October–December, 1998. |
