The Juelich Rapid Spectral Simulation Code (JURASSIC) is a fast infrared radiative transfer model for the analysis of atmospheric remote sensing measurements.

Introduction

The source code of JURASSIC is available from the git repository. Please see the README.md in the git repository for introductory information. More information can be found in the user manual.

This doxygen manual contains information about the algorithms and data structures used in the code. Please refer to the ‘jurassic.h’ documentation for a first overview.

References

For citing the model in scientific publications, please see CITATION.cff and refer to the following papers:

Baumeister, P. F. and Hoffmann, L.: Fast infrared radiative transfer calculations using graphics processing units: JURASSIC-GPU v2.0, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 1855–1874, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1855-2022, 2022.

Hoffmann, L., and M. J. Alexander, Retrieval of stratospheric temperatures from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder radiance measurements for gravity wave studies, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D07105, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011241, 2009.

Hoffmann, L., Kaufmann, M., Spang, R., Müller, R., Remedios, J. J., Moore, D. P., Volk, C. M., von Clarmann, T., and Riese, M.: Envisat MIPAS measurements of CFC-11: retrieval, validation, and climatology, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3671-3688, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-3671-2008, 2008.

Additional references are collected here: https://slcs-jsc.github.io/jurassic/references

License

JURASSIC is being develop at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

JURASSIC is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Contributing

We are interested in supporting operational and research applications with JURASSIC.

You can submit bug reports or feature requests on the issue tracker.

Proposed code changes and fixes can be submitted as pull requests.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or need assistance.

Contact

Dr. Lars Hoffmann

Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich

e-mail: l.hof.nosp@m.fman.nosp@m.n@fz-.nosp@m.juel.nosp@m.ich.d.nosp@m.e