libRadtran, a 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. The libRadtran source code is publicly available here.
libRadtran reference publications:
- C. Emde, R. Buras-Schnell, A. Kylling, B. Mayer, J. Gasteiger, U. Hamann, J. Kylling, B. Richter, C. Pause, T. Dowling, and L. Bugliaro. The libradtran software package for radiative transfer calculations (version 2.0.1). Geoscientific Model Development, 9(5):1647-1672, 2016.
- B. Mayer and A. Kylling. Technical note: The libRadtran software package for radiative transfer calculations - description and examples of use. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5: 1855-1877, 2005.