====== Polarized radiative transfer models ======

If your model should be included in this table, please send all required information to [[claudia.emde@lmu.de|Claudia Emde]].

^ Name ^ Group /Institute ^ Method ^ Model geometry ^ Availability ^
| [[http://www.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=lsmayer:monte_carlo_modell_mystic|MYSTIC]] | LMU Munich | Monte Carlo | 1D/3D plane-parallel/spherical | 1D version available at www.libradtran.org, 3D restricted, contact [[claudia.emde@lmu.de|Claudia Emde]] |    
| [[http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/sciatran/|SCIATRAN]] | IUP Bremen | Discrete Ordinate | 1D plane-parallel/spherical | freely available, registration required | 
|[[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022407303003911|SOSVRT]] | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | successive order of scattering | 1D plane-parallel | not yet released to public, contact [[dmz@mail.iap.ac.cn|Duan Minzheng]] | 
|3DMCPOL | Uni Lille | Monte Carlo | 3D plane-parallel | not yet released to the public, contact [[Celine.Cornet@univ-lille1.fr|Céline Cornet]] |
|[[http://nit.colorado.edu/shdom.html|SHDOM]]| Uni Colorado | spherical harmonics discrete ordinate | 3D plane-parallel | freely available, contact [[evans@nit.colorado.edu|Frank Evans]] |
|[[ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/skorkin/IPOL/|IPOL]]|USRA GESTAR  |Discrete Ordinate |1D plane-parallel|freely available, contact [[sergey.v.korkin@nasa.gov|Sergey Korkin]] |
|[[http://mscart.nuist.edu.cn|MSCART]] | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology China | Monte Carlo | 1D/3D plane-parallel | freely available, registration required, contact [[intersharp@126.com|Zhen Wang]] | 
|[[http://tools.tropos.de|SPARTA]] | TROPOS, Leipzig, Germany | Monte Carlo | 3D plane-parallel | freely available, contact [[barlakas@tropos.de|Vasileios Barlakas]]|

====== Other tools ======

  * [[http://www.icare.univ-lille1.fr/wiki/index.php/Anapol|Anapol]]: An interactive tool to analyze the TOA polarized reflectance measured by Parasol developed by F.-M. Bréon.