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faq [2022/12/09 23:51] (current) admin [I have problems compiling libRadtran under Mac OS X] |
| ==== How to convert to the new syntax? ==== |
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| This is simple: We provide a Python script to translate from the old |
| syntax (before July 2014) to the new syntax (after July 2014): |
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| python src_py/translate.py uvspec.inp > uvspecnew.inp |
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==== How serious are serious differences reported by "make check"? ==== | ==== How serious are serious differences reported by "make check"? ==== |
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There are several sources that describe the inner workings of DISORT. Please check out: | There are several sources that describe the inner workings of DISORT. Please check out: |
* [[ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/wiscombe/Multiple_Scatt/DISORTpaper.pdf|The DISORT paper]] for a brief description. | * [[https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-27-12-2502|The DISORT paper]] for a brief description. |
* [[ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/wiscombe/Multiple_Scatt/DISORTReport1.1.pdf|The DISORT report]] for a detailed description. Highly recommended. | * {{::disortreport1.1.pdf|The DISORT report}} for a detailed description. Highly recommended. |
* [[ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/wiscombe/Multiple_Scatt/DISORT2.0beta/DISORT.doc|The DISORT IO documentation]] for a description of all input/output to DISORT. | * {{::disort2.doc|The DISORT 2.0 IO documentation}} for a description of all input/output to DISORT. |
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==== Where is the tools directory? ==== | |
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The directory structure has changed a bit from version 1.3 to version 1.4. We made libRadtran a bit more compliant to the "standard" source code structure. All the sources are now in src, the library sources in libsrc_c and libsrc_f, and the binaries go into bin. While this is not a big improvement in itself, one may now use "make install" as with most other UNIX/Linux tools. | |
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==== How to redirect uvspec output ==== | ==== How to redirect uvspec output ==== |
export F77=gfortran | export F77=gfortran |
before calling configure. | before calling configure. |
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| ==== I have problems compiling libRadtran under MacOS ==== |
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| Please be assured that libRadtran works nicely under MacOS since some of the developers work on a Mac. To be able to build the libRadtran C and Fortran libraries and associated |
| tools, you will need a number of packages provided by either |
| [[https://www.macports.org|macports]] or [[https://brew.sh/index_de|Homebrew]]. Both build upon the Apple developer tools Xcode, available in the App Store. Please note that Xcode is not sufficient because it does not provide a Fortran compiler. |
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| E.g. for macports that implies that you install the GNU C compiler, |
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| sudo port install gcc |
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| and a number of other packages like the GNU Scientific Library |
| (libgsl), the GNU Multiple Precision Library (libgmp), and the NetCDF library |
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| sudo port install gsl |
| sudo port install gmp |
| sudo port install netcdf |
| ... |
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| The rest is easy. Open a terminal under Max OS X and follow the standard libRadtran installation instructions. |
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==== How to implement loops in libRadtran ==== | ==== How to implement loops in libRadtran ==== |
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for sza in 0 15 30 45; do | for sza in 0 15 30 45; do |
sed s/SZA/$sza/ uvspec.template uvspec.template > uvspec.inp | sed s/SZA/$sza/ uvspec.template > uvspec.inp |
../bin/uvspec < uvspec.inp >> uvspec.out | ../bin/uvspec < uvspec.inp >> uvspec.out |
done | done |
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See [[http://www.libradtran.org/doku.php?id=user_area:netcdf_under_cygwin|here]]! | See [[http://www.libradtran.org/doku.php?id=user_area:netcdf_under_cygwin|here]]! |
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| ==== User defined aerosol ==== |
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| The most general method to setup your own aerosol (or cloud) properties is the following: |
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| profile_file 1D aer1 your_aerosol1.dat |
| profile_properties aer1 your_aerosol1.cdf interpolate |
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| profile_file 1D aer2 your_aerosol2.dat |
| profile_properties aer2 your_aerosol2.cdf interpolate |
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| ... |
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| This way you may combine as many aerosol species as you need. The profile_file includes mass concentration altitude profiles and particle size. The netcdf profile_properties_files include the aerosol optical properties (extinction, single scattering albedo, phase matrix, Legendre polynomials of phase matrix ... ) and can be generated using e.g. the Mie tool in libRadtran, where you can specify refractive index and size distribution parameters (see examples/MIE_2.INP). Run |
| bin/mie < examples/MIE_2.INP |
| and you may use the output wc.mie.cdf as example for an optical properties file. |
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