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Radiance updates:

  • Enables microwave radiance emission for RTTOV13
  • Allows user to bring in liquid/ice effective droplet radius from model as an alternative to the fixed default value
  • Specifies the max cloud fraction from the model as the effective cloud fraction
  • Fixes hydrometeor type 'hydrotable' to expect the order: rain, snow, graupel, cloud water cloud ice
  • For visible radiance applies empirical 0.1 factor against snow when calculating total cloud ice
  • Documentation rewritten to give an overview over capabilities, list advice, and give references to further material
  • WRF model_mod: added type_clwde type_icede

Developed in collaboration with Lukas Kugler

Documentation updates:

  • Improved contributors guide #813
  • Default_model_mod routines docs improved for usage in model_mods #798, #957
  • Brief history of DART extended to present day #900
  • Duplicate/out-of-date location_mod doc removed #796 (comment)

Bug fixes:

  • Standard C compliance for gregorian_time.c #961
  • obs_def_rttov_mod.f90 TOA indexing
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