There are two categories of participant: existing CKD models with a fixed number of bands and spectral intervals, and CKD tools, which generate new CKD models with some control over the accuracy, efficiency (i.e. total number of spectral intervals) and range of applicability (e.g. gases treated and range of concentrations supported). The main purpose of CKDMIP is to evaluate and improve the way that CKD tools generate CKD models.
This page lists the participants so far...
CKD tools
| Name | Reference | Contact | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
SOCRATES: Suite Of Community Radiation codes based on Edwards and Slingo | James Manners (Met Office) | ||
| ecCKD: ECMWF Correlated K-Distribution tool | Hogan (2010) | Robin Hogan (ECMWF) | |
| ARTDECO: Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Database for Earth Climate Observation | Jérôme Riedi (LOA) | ||
| PSLACKD: the Penn State/LAngley CKD Works | Kato et al. (1999) | Seiji Kato (NASA Langley) | |
| CMA scheme | Zhang et al. (2003) | Hua Zhang (CMA) | |
| mstrnX | Sekiguchi and Nakajima (2008) | Miho Sekiguchi (Tokyo U. Marine Sci. & Tech.) | |
| (TBD) | Numerous papers | Frédéric André (INSA Lyon) | |
| KBIN: a k-distribution method without correlation assumption | Doppler et al. (2014) | Nils Madenach, Juergen Fischer, Rene Preusker (FU Berlin) |
CKD models
Entries under the "LW status" and "SW status" columns indicate versions of the datasets that have been uploaded and are present on the FTP site, and the links take you to a page summarizing the evaluation against line-by-line reference calculations.
| Name | Reference | Contact | LW status | SW status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ecRad-RRTMG: Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for GCMs (ECMWF implementation) | Mlawer et al. (1997), Iacono et al. (2008), Hogan & Bozzo (2018) | Robin Hogan (ECMWF) | v1.2.0 | v1.2.0 |
| RRTMGP: RRTM for GCM applications - Parallel | Pincus et al. (2019) | Robert Pincus (U. Colorado) | v181204 | |
| MODTRAN: Moderate resolution atmospheric transmission | Berk et al. (1998) | Alexander Berk (Spectral Sciences Inc.) |