Dear John, I would say with K. Schwarzschild, Über das Gleichgewicht der Sonnenatmosphäre, 1906, where he develops the RTE for a nonscattering atmosphere.
Best wishes, Stefan > On 26. Apr 2017, at 12:02, John Burrows <burr...@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de> > wrote: > > Good question! > > The publications in the 1930s on the Turing machines and some related were > the first about modern computers. > > When was radiative transfer first developed as a concept- Chandrasekhar or > before? > > I am interested in the result. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > John > >> On 26. Apr 2017, at 11:17, Stefan Buehler <stefan.bueh...@uni-hamburg.de> >> wrote: >> >> Dear radiative transfer enthusiasts, >> >> here is a challenge for you: What is the earliest paper that describes >> remote sensing radiative transfer calculations on an electronic computer? >> >> For energy flux calculations, there is for example the landmark paper by >> Manabe and Möller from 1961. Funnily, in these old papers, it is not always >> easy to judge whether a computer was used or not, often it is not mentioned >> explicitly. >> >> Anyway, now I’m interested not in flux calculations, but in the earliest >> paper that describes a forward model computer code for remote sensing. Any >> suggestions? >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Stefan >> >> Refs: >> >> MANABE, S. and MÖLLER, F.: ON THE RADIATIVE EQUILIBRIUM AND HEAT BALANCE OF >> THE ATMOSPHERE, Monthly Weather Review, 89(12), 503–532, >> doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1961)089<0503:OTREAH>2.0.CO;2, 1961. > _______________________________________________ arts_dev.mi mailing list arts_dev.mi@lists.uni-hamburg.de https://mailman.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/mailman/listinfo/arts_dev.mi
