A number of improvements are required for the treatment of the solar spectrum when generating spectral files:
- When the solar spectrum is of lower resolution than the spectral file sub-bands the spectral weightings are poorly interpolated.
- The spectral variability file needs to allow solar variations at lower resolution than the spectral file sub-bands.
- The solar weighting for correlated-k terms can be improved by supplying appropriate attenuated spectra for each pressure level.