RTE+RRTMGP documentation
This is the documentation for RTE+RRTMGP, a set of codes for computing radiative fluxes in planetary atmospheres. The initial release of RTE+RRTMGP is described in a paper. The code itself can be cited as doi:10.5281/zenodo.3403172 or via the DOI attached to each release.
RRTMGP uses a k-distribution to provide an optical description (absorption and possibly Rayleigh optical depth) of the gaseous atmosphere, along with the relevant source functions, on a pre-determined spectral grid given temperatures, pressures, and gas concentration. The k-distribution currently distributed with this package is applicable to the Earth’s atmosphere under present-day, pre-industrial, and 4xCO2 conditions.
RTE computes fluxes given spectrally-resolved optical descriptions and source functions. The fluxes are normally summarized or reduced via a user extensible class.
RTE+RRTMGP is a collaboration between Columbia University and Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. with support from a growing community including the German Climate Computing Center, Nvidia, and the Swiss Supercomputing Center. Please open an issue with questions.
Documentation is always a work in progress
We follow the Diataxis framework and produce tutorials, how-to guides, explanations, and reference.
Much of the reference documentation is auto-generated from the code itself. This is provided separately for RTE and RRTMGP and for the user-facing classes and underlying computational kernels.
We welcome contributions to the documentation via pull requests against the main branch
of the Github repository.
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