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Informal documentation for Socrates is collected here.

The formal Socrates documentation is held in latex format within the code docs and should be updated when any new functionality is added. Built versions (pdfs) of the Socrates Technical and User Guides are attached as assets to the latest release.

Tutorials

• Getting started: download the latest code, build and test
• Example two-stream flux calculations in clear-sky
• Example two-stream flux calculations in cloudy sky
• Preparing the input atmospheric profiles
• Prescribed optical properties for clouds and aerosols
• Modifying the spectral configuration: spectral files
• Parametrised optical properties for clouds and aerosols
• Generating gas absorption coefficients (correlated-k)
• Example spherical harmonics radiance calculation

Socrates within the NASA GISS ROCKE-3D model

• ROCKE-3D Socrates resources

Miscellaneous Docs

• Subroutine calls and looping structure