Citing cesm-hawc

If you use cesm-hawc in published work, please cite the software:

McDonald, V.: cesm-hawc, Zenodo, McDonald (2026).

This DOI always points to the latest release; Zenodo also gives each release its own DOI, listed on that page, for citing the exact version you used. The repository’s CITATION.cff file has the full citation details; on GitHub, use “Cite this repository”.

Please also cite the packages that do the radiative transfer and retrieval, giving the versions you used (pip show hawcsimulator aliprocessing sasktran2):

• Zawada, D.: hawcsimulator (version 2026.6.0), University of Saskatchewan, https://github.com/usask-arg/hawc-simulator.

• Rieger, L. and Zawada, D.: aliprocessing (version 2026.10.0), University of Saskatchewan, https://github.com/usask-arg/ali-processing.

• SASKTRAN2, https://github.com/usask-arg/sasktran2. Its authors ask that these papers be acknowledged:

  • Zawada, D. J., Dueck, S. R., Rieger, L. A., Bourassa, A. E., Lloyd, N. D., and Degenstein, D. A. (2015). High-resolution and Monte Carlo additions to the SASKTRAN radiative transfer model. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 2609–2623. Zawada et al. (2015)

  • Bourassa, A. E., Degenstein, D. A., and Llewellyn, E. J. (2008). SASKTRAN: A spherical geometry radiative transfer code for efficient estimation of limb scattered sunlight. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf., 109(1), 52–73. Bourassa et al. (2008)

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• Mills, M. J., et al. (2016). Global volcanic aerosol properties derived from emissions, 1990–2014, using CESM1(WACCM). J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 2332–2348.