SkewTplus 1.1

Atmospheric Profile Plotting and Diagnostics

SkewTplus provides a few useful tools to help with the plotting and analysis of upper atmosphere data. In particular, it provides some useful classes to handle the awkward skew-x projection.

This package is based on the SkewT Python package developed by Thomas Chubb (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SkewT/)

The main difference with the original SkewT package is that the vertical soundings plots are handled by a special class (SkewT). The new SkewT class extends the base matplolib’s Figure class with an interface similar to matplolib’s pyplot. It also allows to create Skew-T type plots in a simple way. This new class allows a complete control over the Figure properties like multiple plots (normal axis and Skew-T axis).

In addition, the thermodynamics module was improved. All the intensive computations were migrated to Cython and paralellized.

The SkewT Python package was a cornerstone of this project. We are grateful to all its collaborators.

Technology builds on technology

Documentation

Check the documentation at http://www.meteo.mcgill.ca/~aperez/SkewTplus/

Dependencies

The SkewTplus package need the following dependencies

• matplotlib

• numpy

• cython

• netCDF4

For running the examples:

• Basemap

Installing SkewT

PIP install

The easiest way is to install the package with pip:

pip install SkewTplus

Install from source

The latest version can be installed manually by downloading the sources from https://github.com/aperezhortal/SkewTplus

Then, run:

python setup.py install

If you want to put it somewhere different than your system files, you can do:

python setup.py install --prefix=/path/to/local/dir

IMPORTANT: All the dependencies need to be already installed!

To-Do List

• More column diagnostics.

• Hodographs