Getting Started
Depending on whether you have obtained the Windows or the linux version, the executable is named
either McArtim.exe or McArtim. Throughout this
documentation McArtim is used.
Call without Arguments
The first step is to make oneself familiar with the program by executing McArtim without arguments:There are two ways of calling McArtim. One way is to specify a
simulation.conf file and optionally pass the -t
which means 'table' processing. Without -t McArtim produces a single
row of output. -t allows to process tables with data. The number of output
rows will be the same as the number of lines in the data file specified in
simulation.conf.
Online Help with -h and Object conf Templates
Passing the -h option to McArtim allows to get command line support for the
configuration files:
If an object name listed in
McArtim -h is passed as an argument (i.e. McArtim -h object), McArtim produces a template
of the corresponding .conf file.
With the call McArtim -h -c directory the program generates a configuration and directory structure skeleton, that can be used
as a starting point. The only information that one has to pass to the program is a fully qualified directory path directoryin which
the configuration skeleton shall be created. The data that one will need in order to complete the configuration are
- ambient air profiles for pressure and temperature
- trace gas number density profiles along with their (temperature depending) absorption cross sections
- particles characterisation in terms of spatial distribution of optical or microphysical properties
- information on the ground topology and optical properties such as the spectral albedo(reflectivity)