Basic Usage
Those users who are not familiar with the predecessor of libRadtran,
uvspec, please note the following: The central program
of the package is an executable called uvspec which can be found in
the tools directory. If you are interested in a user-friendly
program for radiative transfer calculations, this is the main
information you need to know. A description of uvspec is provided
in the first part of the manual, and examples including various
input files for different atmospheric conditions are provided in the
examples directory. For a quick try of uvspec go to the
examples directory and run
../tools/uvspec < UVSPEC_CLEAR.INP > test.out
For the format of input and output please refer to the manual.
The tools directory also provides related utilities, like e.g.
a mie program (mie), some utilities for the calculation of the
position of the sun (zenith, noon, sza2time), a
few tools for interpolation, convolution, and integration
(spline, conv, integrate), and some other small tools.
The second part of the manual describes library routines which might
be of interest if you want to write your own programs. Documentation is
far from complete at present. Available are routines to read ASCII files,
to do interpolations, integrations, convolutions, and to calculate
the position of the sun. More might be available somewhen in the future.