Installation

Install openMWR

Clone the repository:

git clone https://gitlab.physik.uni-muenchen.de/D.Schlebruegge/openMWR.git

Create and activate a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install the openMWR package as editable:

cd openMWR
pip install -e .

If you want to build the documentation, you also need to install the dependencies for that:

pip install -e ".[docs]"

Install libRadtran

libRadtran is a required dependency for the forward calculation of the infrared sensor measurements on an Hatpro MWR.

libRadtran is GPL-licensed third-party software. This project does not bundle or distribute libRadtran. Users install libRadtran separately. See: https://www.libradtran.org/doku.php?id=download To install libRadtran, follow these steps in the openMWR root directory:

Check for the latest version and download it:

libradtran_version=2.0.6
wget https://www.libradtran.org/download/libRadtran-${libradtran_version}.tar.gz

Unpack the distribution

gzip -d libRadtran-${libradtran_version}.tar.gz
tar -xvf libRadtran-${libradtran_version}.tar
rm libRadtran-${libradtran_version}.tar

Compile the distribution

cd libRadtran-${libradtran_version}
./configure
make

Test the program

make check

Download data for the REPTRAN absorption parameterization

wget http://www.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~libradtran/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=download:reptran_2024_all.tar.gz -O reptran_2024_all.tar.gz

gzip -d reptran_2024_all.tar.gz
tar -xvf reptran_2024_all.tar
rm reptran_2024_all.tar