[Casa-framework] atmosphere API

[Joseph P. McMullin]

Hi Raymond,
No you're just ahead of the game; with the loss of David D., it is stalled.
Joe


On 9/20/06, Raymond Rusk <Raymond.Rusk at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Raymond Rusk wrote:
>
> > Hi George,
> >
> > Is the present CASA atmospheric model API as defined by DOatmosphere.h (
> > http://aips2.nrao.edu/stable/docs/synthesis/implement/MeasurementComponents/Atmosphere.html)
> > adequate for calibrater?  It is the result of a complete rewrite done by
>
> BTW, the on-line DOatmosphere.h html document is poorly formated because I
> used Doxygen for the inline comments rather than the old home-grown
> markup.  Has the move to Doxygen been shelved or was I misinformed when I
> used it.
>
> > Gary and myself of the earlier DO written by Kumar.  However, I don't
> > think either Kumar's DO, or Gary and my DO, were used by anyone so it is
> > difficult to know whether they were useful, adequate, both or neither.
> >
> > Now is a good time to specify exactly what we want since TELCAL has
> > changed their ATM API so much the I need to do some work to make the
> > library available as a tool in CASA.
> >
> > The API that Gary and I implemented in our current DOatmosphere.h is close
> > to the one that version 0.1 of the TELCAL ATM supported (see
> > http://websqa.hq.eso.org/alma/snapshot/TELCAL-Reports/Documentation/Modules/TELCAL/TelCalResults/Libraries/ATM-0.1/api/).
> >
> > However, this is quite a bit different from the new ATM API described at
> > http://websqa.hq.eso.org/alma/snapshot/TELCAL-Reports/Documentation/Modules/TELCAL/TelCalResults/Libraries/ATM/api/.
> >
> > I think that their new API may be more complicated than what we need and
> > could be redone exposing just the functionality that we want in the CASA
> > framework.  Consequently, I am wondering whether making what we have in
> > DOatmosphere.cc continue to work in the new CASA framework would be the
> > best approach.  It would not map directly to the current TELCAL ATM API
> > though.
> >
> > Raymond
> >
> >
>
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