Re: ReadHITRAN

2021-09-20 Thread Patrick Eriksson
Stefan, Yes, that sounds reasonable. I simply lagging behind the development and need to catch up in how we do things. I emailed Richard and Freddy on the side about some stuff. But when you brought it up, is there a documentation on the replacement mechanism? In the email to R&F I also sugg

Re: ReadHITRAN

2021-09-20 Thread Stefan Buehler
Dear Patrick, I think we should put ARTS’ own line catalog in the center wherever possible (which is based on converted current HITRAN). Use it, if you are happy with the parameters there. If you want other parameters, and there is a good reason for that, consider updating it. We have a mechani

Re: ReadHITRAN

2021-09-20 Thread Patrick Eriksson
Richard, Thanks for additional information. Seems that the take home message is that I should look at other ways to set up the calculations. I just picked up an old cfile, used that as a starting point and did not even consider alternatives to use ReadHITRAN. Bye, Patrick On 2021-09-20 09:

Re: ReadHITRAN

2021-09-20 Thread Richard Larsson
Hi Patrick, We can of course optimize the reading routine but there's no point in doing that. The methods that read external catalogs should only ever be used once per update of the external catalog, so it's fine if they are slow but not too slow. New memory is allocated for every absorption lin