Data Policy & How to Acknowledge

Data Policy

Libraries included in this system are provided to users with the understanding that they will be used only for non-profit scientific or educational purposes, the origin of the data, programs, parameters, are always acknowledged, and the users should assume complete responsibility for any direct and indirect damages due to use of these libraries.

How to Acknowledge

Every researchers, scientists, engineers, teachers who will publish papers should acknowledge the contributions of OpenCLASTR and package developer(s), with a sentence and publication lists suggested below. If you got considerable supports from OpenCLASTR colleagues or package developer(s), please contain individual name(s) as co-author(s).

MATH.PACK, RAD.PACK

(rstar4b, rstar5b)
[Acknowledgement]
The author(s) are grateful to OpenCLASTR project for using RSTAR (system for transfer of atmospheric radiation) package in this research.
[References]
  • Nakajima, T., and M. Tanaka, 1986: Matrix formulation for the transfer of solar radiation in a plane-parallel scattering atmosphere, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 35, 13-21.
  • Nakajima, T., and M. Tanaka, 1988: Algorithms for radiative intensity calculations in moderately thick atmospheres using a truncation approximation, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer , 40, 51-69.
  • Stamnes, K., S.-C. Tsay, W. Wiscombe, and K. Jayaweera, 1988: Numerically stable algorithm for discrete-ordinate-method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting layered media, Appl. Opt., 27, 2502-2509.

SKYRAD.PACK

[Acknowledgement]
The author(s) are grateful to OpenCLASTR project for using RSTAR (system for transfer of atmospheric radiation) package in this research.
[References]
  • Nakajima, T., G. Tonna, R. Rao, Y. Kaufman, and B. Holben, 1996: Use of sky brightness measurements from ground for remote sensing of particulate polydispersions. App. Opt., 35, 2672-2686.

REAP

[Acknowledgement]
The author(s) are grateful to OpenCLASTR project for using REAP (Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Properties) package in this research.
[References]
  • Higurashi, A., T. Nakajima, B. N. Holben, A. Smirnov, R. Frouin, and B. Chatenet, 2000: A Global characterization of aerosols with a two channel remote sensing. J. Clim., 13, 2011-2027.
  • Higurashi, A., and T. Nakajima, 1999: Development of a Two Channel Aerosol Retrieval Algorithm on Global Scale Using NOAA / AVHRR. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 924-941.
  • Nakajima, T., and A. Higurashi, 1998: A use of two-channel radiances for an aerosol characterization from space. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 3815-3818
  • Higurashi, A., 1998: A study of aerosol properties on global scale using satellite remote sensning. University of Tokyo, Ph. D. thesis.

CAPCOM

[Acknowledgement]
The author(s) are grateful to OpenCLASTR project for using CAPCOM (Comprehensive Analysis Program for Cloud Optical Measurement) package in this research.
[References]
  • Nakajima, T. Y. and T. Nakajima, 1995: Wide-area determination of cloud microphysical properties from NOAA AVHRR measurements for FIRE and ASTEX regions, J. Atmos., Sci. 52, 4043-4059.
  • Kawamoto, K., T. Nakajima, and T. Y. Nakajima, 2001: A global determination of cloud microphysics with AVHRR remote sensing,J. Climate, 14, 2054-2068.

SPRINTARS

[Acknowledgement]
The author(s) are grateful to OpenCLASTR project for using SPRINTARS (Spectral radiation - transport model for aerosol species) package in this research.
[References]
  • Takemura, T., H. Okamoto, Y. Maruyama, A. Numaguti, A. Higurashi, and T. Nakajima, 2000: Global three-dimensional simulation of aerosol optical thickness distribution of various origins, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 17853-17873.
  • Takemura, T., T. Nakajima, O. Dubovik, B. N. Holben, and S. Kinne, 2002: Single-scattering albedo and radiative forcing of various aerosolspecies with a global three-dimensional model, J. Climate, 15, 333-352.

LISAS_goa

[Acknowledgement]
The author(s) are grateful to OpenCLASTR project for using LISAS_goa (Light Scattering solver for Arbitral Shape particle) package in this research.
[References]
  • Nakajima, T. Y., T. Nakajima, and A. A. Kokhanovsky, 1997: Radiation transfer calculations with pahse functions of irregular ice particles obtained by geometric-optics approximation, The European Symposium on Aerospace Remote Sensing (London, UK)
  • Kokhanovsky, A. A., and T. Y. Nakajima, 1998: "The dependence of phase functions of large transparent particles on their refractive index and shape", J. Phys. D :Appl. Phys., 31,1329-1335