Publications#
Descriptions of the SASKTRAN model#
The following publications describe the inner workings of the SASKTRAN radiative transfer model.
Adam E Bourassa, Douglas A Degenstein, and Edward J Llewellyn. Sasktran: a spherical geometry radiative transfer code for efficient estimation of limb scattered sunlight. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 109(1):52–73, 2008.
Seth RF Dueck, Adam E Bourassa, and Doug A Degenstein. An efficient algorithm for polarization in the sasktran radiative transfer framework. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 199:1–11, 2017.
Lukas Fehr, Chris McLinden, Debora Griffin, Daniel Zawada, Doug Degenstein, and Adam Bourassa. Spherical air mass factors in one and two dimensions with sasktran 1.6. 0. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(24):7491–7507, 2023.
DJ Zawada, AE Bourassa, and DA Degenstein. Two-dimensional analytic weighting functions for limb scattering. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 200:125–136, 2017.
DJ Zawada, SR Dueck, LA Rieger, AE Bourassa, ND Lloyd, and DA Degenstein. High-resolution and monte carlo additions to the sasktran radiative transfer model. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8(6):2609–2623, 2015.
Applications using SASKTRAN#
The following publications are applications using the SASKTRAN radiative transfer model.
Adam E Bourassa, Landon A Rieger, Daniel J Zawada, Sergey Khaykin, LW Thomason, and Doug A Degenstein. Satellite limb observations of unprecedented forest fire aerosol in the stratosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(16):9510–9519, 2019.
Adam E Bourassa, Chris Z Roth, Daniel J Zawada, Landon A Rieger, Chris A McLinden, and Douglas A Degenstein. Drift-corrected odin-osiris ozone product: algorithm and updated stratospheric ozone trends. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(1):489–498, 2018.
Kimberlee Dubé, Daniel Zawada, Adam Bourassa, Doug Degenstein, William Randel, David Flittner, Patrick Sheese, and Kaley Walker. An improved osiris no 2 profile retrieval in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere and intercomparison with ace-fts and sage iii/iss. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 15(20):6163–6180, 2022.
BJ Elash, AE Bourassa, PR Loewen, ND Lloyd, and DA Degenstein. The aerosol limb imager: acousto-optic imaging of limb-scattered sunlight for stratospheric aerosol profiling. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 9(3):1261–1277, 2016.
Debora Griffin, Xiaoyi Zhao, Chris A McLinden, Folkert Boersma, Adam Bourassa, Enrico Dammers, Doug Degenstein, Henk Eskes, Lukas Fehr, Vitali Fioletov, and others. High-resolution mapping of nitrogen dioxide with tropomi: first results and validation over the canadian oil sands. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(2):1049–1060, 2019.
JA Langille, D Letros, D Zawada, A Bourassa, D Degenstein, and B Solheim. Spatial heterodyne observations of water (show) vapour in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from a high altitude aircraft: modelling and sensitivity analysis. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 209:137–149, 2018.
Jeffery Langille, Daniel Letros, Adam Bourassa, Brian Solheim, Doug Degenstein, Fabien Dupont, Daniel Zawada, and Nick D Lloyd. Spatial heterodyne observations of water (show) from a high-altitude airplane: characterization, performance, and first results. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12(1):431–455, 2019.
Daniel Letros, Liam Graham, Adam Bourassa, Doug Degenstein, Paul Loewen, Landon Rieger, and Nick Lloyd. The aerosol limb imager: multi-spectral polarimetric observations of stratospheric aerosol. EGUsphere, 2025:1–32, 2025.
Anqi Li, Chris Z Roth, Adam E Bourassa, Douglas A Degenstein, Kristell Pérot, Ole Martin Christensen, and Donal P Murtagh. The oh (3-1) nightglow volume emission rate retrieved from osiris measurements: 2001 to 2015. Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2021:1–18, 2021.
Shen-En Qian, Stephane Routhier, Tongxi Wu, Denis Dufour, Stéphane Lantagne, Frédéric Grandmont, Doug Degenstein, Alexis Bourassa, Adam Bourassa, Daniel Zawada, and others. Ghg measurements using an imaging fts on a stratospheric balloon: a tech demo for the arctic observing mission. In Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXIX, volume 13193, 59–66. SPIE, 2024.
LA Rieger, DJ Zawada, AE Bourassa, and DA Degenstein. A multiwavelength retrieval approach for improved osiris aerosol extinction retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(13):7286–7307, 2019.
Ethan Runge, Jeff Langille, Daniel Zawada, Adam Bourassa, and Doug Degenstein. Stratospheric-trace-gas-profile retrievals from balloon-borne limb imaging of mid-infrared emission spectra. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16(12):3123–3139, 2023.
Christopher E Sioris, Landon A Rieger, Nicholas D Lloyd, Adam E Bourassa, Chris Z Roth, Douglas A Degenstein, Claude Camy-Peyret, Klaus Pfeilsticker, Gwenaël Berthet, Valéry Catoire, and others. Improved osiris no 2 retrieval algorithm: description and validation. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(3):1155–1168, 2017.
J Truitt Wiensz, Adam E Bourassa, Nick D Lloyd, Aldona Wiacek, Randall V Martin, and Doug A Degenstein. Photon conservation in scattering by large ice crystals with the sasktran radiative transfer model. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 113(8):582–593, 2012.
Daniel Zawada, Kimberlee Dubé, Taran Warnock, Adam Bourassa, Susann Tegtmeier, and Douglas Degenstein. A multi-decadal time series of upper stratospheric temperature profiles from odin-osiris limb-scattered spectra. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 17(7):1995–2010, 2024.
Daniel Zawada, Ghislain Franssens, Robert Loughman, Antti Mikkonen, Alexei Rozanov, Claudia Emde, Adam Bourassa, Seth Dueck, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Didier Ramon, and others. Systematic comparison of vectorial spherical radiative transfer models in limb scattering geometry. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14(5):3953–3972, 2021.
Daniel J Zawada, Landon A Rieger, Adam E Bourassa, and Douglas A Degenstein. Tomographic retrievals of ozone with the omps limb profiler: algorithm description and preliminary results. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(4):2375–2393, 2018.
Xiaoyi Zhao, Debora Griffin, Vitali Fioletov, Chris McLinden, Alexander Cede, Martin Tiefengraber, Moritz Müller, Kristof Bognar, Kimberly Strong, Folkert Boersma, and others. Assessment of the quality of tropomi high-spatial-resolution no 2 data products in the greater toronto area. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 13(4):2131–2159, 2020.