Rayleigh scattering
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About Rayleigh scattering in LMDZ Generic
Formalism
References
Hansen (1974) : https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/1974SSRv...16..527H/ADS_PDF
Rayleigh routine in exo_k : http://perso.astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/~jleconte/exo_k-doc/_modules/exo_k/rayleigh.html#Rayleigh.sigma_mol
Exo_k uses formalism from : Caldas (2019) : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02005332/document
Equation
in optcv.F90 :
TRAY(K,NW) = TAURAY(NW) * DPR(K)
TAURAY(NW) is calculated in calc_rayleigh.F90
TAURAY(NW) = \( \Tau_{RAY} = \displaystyle \frac{\int \tau(\lambda) B_{\lambda} \, \mathrm{d}\lambda}{\int B_{\lambda} \, \mathrm{d}\lambda} \)
\( \displaystyle \tau(\lambda) \) is called TAUVAR
