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  • The absorption database er3t/data/abs/abs_16g.h5 was created by Coddington et al. (2008) using correlated-k method.

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  • MCARaTS is a 3D radiative transfer solver developed by Iwabuchi (2006) and Iwabuchi and Okamura (2017).

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  • libRadtran is a library for radiative transfer developed by Emde et al. (2016) and Mayer and Kylling (2005).

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  • SHDOM is a 3D radiative transfer solver developed by Evans (1998).

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