Broadband Albedo Calculator 2 Band

Created on Sat June 5 21:25:32 2021 @author: Vidya Venkatesan (vidyav1@uci.edu)

Project description: This code is a python version of ice_gcm.pro which calculates the albedo from stellar spectrum and spectrum of reflectance. Note: any spectrum file can be used along with any reflectance spectrum provided the minGrid and maxGrid parameters are changed to reflect the appropriate units. Units are not important (as long as the wavelength units are the same for each file) for the final albedo calculations since it is normalized by both the wavelength and the stellar spectrum. This 6-band calculator can be used for models like 1-D EBMs and ExoCAM.

Required Inputs:

stellarfile = file containing two columns:

1 - wavelength, microns 2 - flux, in any units (this is normalized for the albedo calculation)

albedofile = file containing three columns (as generated by the USGS):

1 - wavelength, in microns 2 - reflectance at that wavelength (0 - 1) 3 - error, if any