Aerosol optical depth in RRTMG

Question

remcoverzijlbergh opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Dear Brian,

When I was trying to give a different value of aerosol optical depth to RRTMG, I noticed that line 175 in rrtmg.py reads:

                     tauaer = tauc_sw,

This seems like a typo (the cloud optical depth is used instead of the aerosol optical depth). It should probably read:

                     tauaer = tauaer_sw,

I hope this is the correct way of filing this 'bug report'. Climlab is great, by the way.

Best regards,

Remco

Brian Rose · Answer 1 · Wed Dec 30 2020 23:03:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I believe you are correct! I don't think we have any tests that touch the aerosol arguments, so nobody has ever caught that before. I will fix.

Brian Rose · Answer 2 · Thu Dec 31 2020 02:48:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is fixed now in climlab 0.7.9.
Thanks for the report!

remcoverzijlbergh · Answer 3 · Thu Dec 31 2020 02:52:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Great!

Keep up the good work!