ecape 0.0.2

Calculate the entraining CAPE (ECAPE) of a parcel.

ecape

ecape is a simple module that contains an entraining CAPE, or ECAPE, calculation described by Peters et. al. 2023. Additionally, Peters et. al. 2023 -provided MatLab scripts serve as a reference and test verification data. The module leans heavily on Metpy for meteorological calculations.

Installation

pip install ecape

Documentation, Source

https://github.com/citylikeamradio/ecape

https://citylikeamradio.github.io/ecape/html/index.html

Contact

• Robert Capella
• [e-mail]
• https://twitter.com/minusthebob

Future Work

• if useful, incorporate into MetPy
• provide .nc, .csv, & aws support
• provide just-in-time compiling support for faster 2D work

References

Ryan M. May, Sean C. Arms, Patrick Marsh, Eric Bruning, John R. Leeman, Kevin Goebbert, Jonathan E. Thielen, Zachary S Bruick, and M. Drew. Camron. Metpy: a Python package for meteorological data. 2023. URL: Unidata/MetPy, doi:10.5065/D6WW7G29.

John Peters. ECAPE scripts. 2 2023. URL: https://figshare.com/articles/software/ECAPE_scripts/21859818, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.21859818.v4.

John M. Peters, Daniel R. Chavas, Hugh Morrison, Chun-Yian Su, and Brice E. Coffer. An analytic formula for entraining cape in mid-latitude storm environments. 2023. arXiv:2301.04712.

Licence

ecape is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.