Thanks Daniel. Your CAPE calculation approach looks robust. I will give it
a try with my sounding data. In the mean time, do you plan on putting a
function for CIN calculation?


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Daniel Rothenberg <darot...@mit.edu>wrote:

> Hello Gokhan,
>
> I've written my own SkewT/LogP code with some lifted parcel calculations -
> it's included in a GitHub repo I use to maintain a collection of utilities
> I've written for analyzing output from a cloud resolving model I use. You
> can find my code for this purpose at
> https://github.com/darothen/crm-tools/blob/master/vis/soundings.py, along
> with other useful scripts.
>
> - Daniel Rothenberg
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Lately, I am working on plotting sounding profiles on a SkewT/LogP
>> diagram. The SkewT package which is located at
>> https://github.com/tchubb/SkewT has a nice feature to lift a parcel on
>> dry/moist adiabats. This is very useful to demonstrate the regions of CIN
>> and CAPE overlaid with the full sounding.
>>
>> However, the package misses these diagnostic calculations. This is the
>> only step holding me back to use Python only (migrating from NCL) for my
>> plotting tasks.  I am aware that these calculations are usually performed
>> in fortran. Are there any routines wrapped in Python to calculate CAPE and
>> CIN parameters?  Any suggestions or comments would be really appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Gökhan
>>
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