libRadtran - library for radiative transfer - is a collection of C and Fortran functions and programs for calculation of solar and thermal radiation in the Earth's atmosphere. libRadtran is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Authors: Bernhard Mayer, Claudia Emde, Robert Buras, Ulrich Hamann, and Arve Kylling
Newest release: 1.5-beta, February 2, 2010 (“groundhog release”), with a small bugfix update from February 8, 2010.
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The libRadtran reference publication was published in ACP on July 26, 2005.