Contribution Guidelines

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Documentation

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Contributors and Contributions

Current and past contributors are:

• Vikas Nataraja (Dec., 2022 - current)

  • improved the automated process of satellite data download (functions in er3t/util/util.py)

  • added support for MODIS 35 product (functions in er3t/util/modis.py)

  • implemented command line tool for satellite data download (bin/sdown)

• Ken Hirata (Jan., 2023 - current)

  • contributed to the theoretical development of CPU multithreading optimization (functions in er3t/rtm/mca/mca_run.py)

  • implementing the Mie scattering phase function support for aerosols (work in progress)

• Yu-Wen Chen (Apr., 2023 - current)

  • added support for MODIS 04 product (functions in er3t/util/modis.py)

  • implementing spectroscopy support for OCO-2 (work in progress, functions in er3t/pre/abs/abs_oco.py)