Overview

TauREx 3 follows a simply philosophy:

I don’t care how you do it, just give it to me!

A relevant analogy: We don’t really care how a temperature profile is computed, just as long as when we ask for one it gives it to us.

TauREx 3 follow heavily the OOP design to achieve this. Almost everything is split into building blocks that can be mixed and match and combined to form a full atmospheric model and retrieval. Each of these building blocks are a set of interfaces or guarantees that allow to each part to work together.

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Simple overview of how blocks connect and what they provide

These come in the form of abstract or skeleton classes that can be taken and filled out to form a new block in the TauREx 3 architecture.