To help new users of the offline ecRad radiation scheme become familiar with its capabilities, a set of practical exercises has been devised and added to ecRad version 1.3. Since 1.4.1 it includes a Jupyter notebook interface. It makes use of a slice through the atmosphere from the North Pole to the South Pole, taken from the ERA5 reanalysis dataset at 5 degrees east at 12 UTC on 11 July 2019. The slice includes Saharan dust, marine stratocumulus, deep convection and Arctic stratus. The main fields are shown here:
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