RTTOV v14 Code Updates and Known Issues

RTTOV v14 Code Updates

Updates and bug fixes to RTTOV v14 are published here. There are separate pages for RTTOV v13 bug fixes, RTTOV v12 bug fixes and RTTOV v11 bug fixes.

Known bugs and issues

Please report any bugs you find in RTTOV using the NWP SAF Helpdesk. The official release packages for each version don’t contain the bug fixes or updates listed here under that version so you should apply any fixes provided below. Bugs/updates in earlier versions have been fixed/implemented in later versions.

DateType/StatusDescription
27/02/2025Minor bug - fixedAffects: solar simulations when passing multiple profiles into RTTOV and one or more (but not all) profile solar zenith angles exceed the maximum allowed value (85.3 degrees) (RTTOV v14.0).

Issue: it is possible that some radiance outputs (it has only been observed in overcast radiances so far) contain spurious values for VIS/NIR channels corresponding to the profiles with solar zenith angles larger than the maximum. All outputs should be zero for such channels.

Fix: download and extract this tarball to the src/main/ directory, and recompile RTTOV (a clean compilation is not necessary).