PAMTRA package - Passive and Active Microwave TRANsfer

Python/Fortran 90 package to solve the passive and active microwave radiative transfer in a plan parallel horizontally homogeneous atmosphere with hydrometeors

Manual and Installation

Recommended, for Linux (x86_64) and macOS (Apple Silicon / arm64):

pip install 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.)

Not available as a wheel for Windows or Intel macOS -- see https://pamtra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html for those and other install options (conda-forge/pixi, building from source, HPC clusters).

Mailing list

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.

Reference

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.