HR_PPart

The purpose of HR_PPart is to perform radiative transfer computations using high-resolution spectra that have been produced using Kspectrum. Radiative transfer will actually be computed for every wavenumber that defines the input high-resolution spectra. This code is based on analytic radiative transfer solutions that are valid only in the case of a emitting and absorbing, but non-scattering, atmosphere. This code should therefore be used, in the case of the terrestrial atmosphere, for clear-sky LW computations only. However, this code provides the possibility to use cloud data: the scattering optical thickness is then partly integrated in the absorption optical thickness. This is only an approximation, not intended to provide accurate results. Reference results are only achieved for a purely absorbing atmosphere.

Emission altitude

Emission altitude signal in the [500-505] inv. cm spectral range, for a Mid-Latitude Summer standard atmosphere.

Emission temperature

Emission temperature signal in the [500-505] inv. cm spectral range, for a Mid-Latitude Summer standard atmosphere.

Quick start

Prerequisites

Only a fortran compiler is needed (no external libraries). The "gfortran" compiler has been used for development, but other common compilers should work too (ifort, pgfortran, etc.).

Installation

Download and extract the archive (tar -zxvf hr_ppart.tgz); then move into the HR_PPart directory, and use the make all command to compile. You should use the make clean command in the case you want to recompile from scratch only (when include files are modified). If only source files are modified, the make all command will recompile modified files.

Run

HR_PPart has been parallelized, which means you will have to launch it using the "mpirun" command:

mpirun -np <NPROCS> ./analytic_RT.exe

with <NPROCS> the number of processes requested for the computation; MacOS users might encounter a error where the OS considers the user requested a number of processes higher than recommended. You can bypass it using the -oversubscribe option:

mpirun -oversubscribe -np <NPROCS> ./analytic.exe

Usage

Before performing a computation, you should specify where high-resolution spectra of interest are located: you need to provide a link named hires_spectra within the /data directory. This link should be pointing to a directory that contains all spectra produced by Kspectrum for a given atmospheric profile, in addition to the composition.in and molparam.in files used by Kspectrum in order to produce these spectra. This directory should also contain a simple ascii file named profile_parameters.in with the following structure:

Input data for program "analytic_RT"

Temperature of ground (K)
294.0D+0
Temperature of space (K)
3.0D+0
Ground emissivity
1.0D+0

Simulation input is provided through the data.in and options.in files (located in the main HR_PPart directory):

Results are located into the /results directory; several gnuplot scripts are provided in order to visualise various results.

License

Copyright © 2014-2018 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Copyright © 2014-2018 |Méso|Star> (contact@meso-star.com)

HR_PPart is free software released under the CeCILL v2.1 license. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; refer to the license for details.