In addition, Chapter 8 references Oreopoulos et al. (2012) for its description of an international intercomparison of radiative transfer codes that was co-led by an AER scientist. (aer.com)
These areas included construction of novel data sets for algorithm development (both in situ and synthetic data sets), cross comparison and benchmarking of coupled ocean - atmosphere radiative transfer codes, and cross comparison of instruments in the field to assess and constrain uncertainties in the measurements of oceanic particle absorption. (eos.org)
This science of building good high - resolution radiative transfer codes was nailed by Gilbert Plass and others at the air force geophysics lab in the 1950's. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)