Modifying spectral surface albedo about rrtmg_sw HOT 2 CLOSED

Juan: Your modification to the input file to set the spectral emissivity values in all 14 bands (IEMIS=2) is correct except for one important point. The format of the spectral emissivity values must be 14F5.3. If you make this change and use the same value in all 14 bands, the code will reproduce the same result that you get when you use the single, spectrally constant emissivity value (IEMIS=1). See the file doc/rrtmg_sw_instructions.txt for more information about the input file settings.

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Thank you for getting back to me
Originally I used they 14F5.3 in the input files (as specified in the source code) format, using 0.800 for all 14 bands and found that the daily heating rates produces a difference of ~0.2 degrees through out the vertical profile when compared to the broadband of 0.8 . I have since modified the source code (file rrtmg_sw.1col.f90) to read in 9012 as '9012 format (11x,i1,2x,i1,14f7.5)' to take in the input file I originally posted with the spectral albedo set to 0.80000 for all bands. This is the only change I have made to the source code. The result ended up with significantly closer to the broadband output, but still off by ~0.05 degrees heating/day when comparing spectral vs broadband.

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