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Description
Probem
- Currently the Bird clear sky model only takes arguments for
aod380
,aod500
and uses the Bird-Hulstrom approximation for broadband AOD. - There are other broadband approximations that might be better such as Molineaux approximation which is what Ineichen suggests for simplified Solis.
- The signature of the arguments for the Bird model are different from the Simplified Solis, would be better if they were consistent, so instead of asking for two AOD arguments, the Bird model should only ask for
aod_bb
. Huh, should we update the Solis also, since it actually asks foraod700
?
Solution
- Just replace the two AOD arguments in Bird with a single broadband AOD argument
- replace the calculation of
bird_hulstrom
broadband approximation with the same argument from (1) - replace the variable occurances everywhere for
bird_hulstrom
withaod_bb
. - update the documentation
- maybe consider changing
aod700
argument/variable insolis
toaod_bb