[ncl-talk] Problem with calculation of wet bulb temperature

Barry Lynn barry.h.lynn at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 12:25:32 MDT 2018


Hi Jonathan:

Thanks very much.  This is probably the best approach.

What did you mean by the "recommended equivalent temperature algorithm?"
Do you mean that I should use it to calculate the equivalent potential
temperature?

Barry

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 8:43 PM Buzan, Jonathan <jbuzan at purdue.edu> wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> There are new algorithms in the NCL code for calculating wet bulb
> temperature, but probably one of the fastest accurate calculations
> available is the Davies-Jones 2008 method.  I coded this up, and it is now
> part of the Community Land Model version 5.
>
> Attached is a the Fortran routine, HumanIndexMod, that is set up to work
> with NCL (using WRAPIT).  This also calculates the recommended equivalent
> potential temperature algorithm, too.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>

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