This was only possible thanks to their detailed description of environmental conditions. The method used will not work as well at much shorter wavelengths because of strong absorption by the Huggins band of ozone. At longer wavelengths, multiple Mie scattering, which is not properly included here, becomes important relative to Rayleigh scattering and again the method will likely fail. This approach also works well for dark surfaces. Discussion Fine structure due exclusively to RRS is almost perfectly simulated.
Differences are likely due to the difference in the observed and model solar spectra.
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