Python/Fortran 90 package to solve the passive and active microwave radiative transfer in a plan parallel horizontally homogeneous atmosphere with hydrometeors
Recommended, for Linux (x86_64) and macOS (Apple Silicon / arm64):
pip install pamtra
This installs the pyPamtra Python package only -- not the standalone
pamtra command-line binary, since bundling its netCDF-Fortran dependency
into a wheel isn't practical. If you need the CLI binary too, install from
conda-forge instead (works for Intel macOS as well, though not Windows):
conda install -c conda-forge pamtra
(If you previously used the old make pyinstall workflow, see the
installation docs below for a warning about removing its leftover
~/lib/python/pyPamtra by hand -- it can silently shadow this.)
See https://pamtra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html for the full picture, including Windows (WSL2) and building from source (HPC clusters, editable/dev installs).
If you want to join the mailing list you can find it here https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/meteo-pamtra. There you can ask any question related to the usage of PAMTRA.
If you use PAMTRA, please cite our paper:
Mech, M., Maahn, M., Kneifel, S., Ori, D., Orlandi, E., Kollias, P., Schemann, V., and Crewell, S.: PAMTRA 1.0: the Passive and Active Microwave radiative TRAnsfer tool for simulating radiometer and radar measurements of the cloudy atmosphere, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 4229–4251, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4229-2020, 2020.