pyteos_air 1.0.4

This package provides python bindings to the atmospheric component of TEOS-10. Also includes expanded metorological quantities like the equivalent potential temperature.

This package is still in beta testing phase and some of its functions are likely to evolve over time.

Includes:

• Sea-Ice-Water (SIA) Library 3.0 + simple code fixes (for easy compilation)

• An extra module layer Liq_Ice_Air_5a.F90, Liq_Ice_Air_5b.F90, Liq_Ice_Air_5c.F90 and Liq_Ice_Air_5d.F90 with the temperature, the entropy, the potential temperature, the equivalent potential temperature and the pseudo equivalent potential temperature valid over the whole region of validity of TEOS-10.

• Two other extra modules Liq_Air_4d.F90 and Ice_Air_4d.F90 that are very similar to Liq_Air_4b.F90 and Ice_Air_4b.F90 but where one can specify a maximum saturation mass fraction in the definition of the Gibbs function. This allows to compute the equivalent potential temperature in a clean manner.

• A framework to add python bindings to the Fortran version of TEOS-10 with basic examples.

This package provides a simple way to import the TEOS-10 SIA Library into python. The current beta version offers a very basic interface to the library. Future versions will include a better interface and a more extensive physical description of the different routines available.

NOTE:

This package requires a Fortran 90 compiler. Sometimes numpy.disutils will not find the installed Fortran compiler and will return an error. It this happens, download the source code and run:

$ f2py -c --help-fcompiler

To find the list of available compilers and then compile:

$ python setup.py build --fcompiler=gnu95

if ‘gnu95’ was in the list.

VERSION HISTORY

1.0.4 : New equivalent potential temperature and its approximate version.

1.0.3 : Must compute f2py in setup.py but now using a more portable method.

1.0.1 : Package comes with pre-computed f2py files for easier portability.

1.0 : Important bug fix on PYPI

0.9.5 : Some minimal testing and code publication improvements

0.9.2 : Finished moving netCDF interface to package pyteos_nc

0.9.1 : Moved netCDF interface to package pyteos_nc

0.9 : Improve netCDF interface

0.8 : Fixed a warning signal with missing values

0.7 : The interpolation is now much faster

0.6 : Faster netcdf interface for computing interpolated thermodynamic quantities.

Frederic Laliberte, February 17 2015