Re: wrf_3d_cape

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Agnes Lim wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using the above function to calculate cape for a single
> sounding.
> I am getting -0.1 for my cape values for all my 3000+ soundings.
> Not sure what was not correctly assigned.
>
> I had interpolated my soundings to N levels (N<150) since the
> raw soundings has number of levels greater than what the ccode can handle.
> I had p, t, q and alt in teh correct units for N levels. The
> first level of each of the variables were given the values corresponding
> to the first level of the raw soundings. p monotonically with height and
> alt increases monotonically with height. psfc corresponds to p(0) and
> zsfc corresponds to alt(0).
>
> cinfo=wrf_3d_cape(p, t, q, alt, zsfc, psfc, False)
> cape=cinfo(0,0)
> cin=cinfo(1,0)
>
> I only choose the first element because I only need the CAPE
> calculated from lifting a parcel from surface.
>
> Hope someone can point out to me what I had not done correctly.
>
>
> Agnes
>
>
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