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, Ulrich Hamann, Claudia Emde, and Arve Kylling
Newest release: 1.4, December 24, 2008 (with minor updates from January 2, 8, and 27, 2009, mainly to allow compilation without netcdf; this is not a good idea anyway - better install netcdf! Also, implementation of polarisation was improved further)
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The libRadtran reference publication was published in ACP on July 26, 2005.
