<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/wrf_cape_3d.shtml" class="">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/wrf_cape_3d.shtml</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are plenty of examples at the bottom of that page to show how to read in etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My first guess at example of how I would start. </div><div class="">;Assuming </div><div class=""><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">;p</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">t</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">q</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">z</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">(lev,lat,lon) and</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">psfc</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><em style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">zsfc</em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; text-indent: -1em; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" class="">(lat,lon)</span></div><div class="">;lev is increasing and in hPa<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cape_cin = wrf_cape_3d(<span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" class="">p, t, q, z, zsfc, psfc, True) </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" class="">maxcape500 = dim_max_n(cape_cin(0,{500:},:,:), 0)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13px;" class="">mincin500 = dim_min_n(cape_cin(1,{500:},:,:), 0)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">untested psuedocode look into the functions used and make sure that is what you actually want. I’m not overly familiar with wrf_cape_3d. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Alan<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Feb 2016, at 10:31, Celeste Mulena <<a href="mailto:celeste.mulena@gmail.com" class="">celeste.mulena@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Dear, </b><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>I am using ncl version 6.1.0. <br class=""></div>I would like to calculate MAXIMUM CAPE and MINIMUM CIN above 500 mb in WRF, but I dont know how. <br class=""><br class=""></div>I really appreciate your help with this problem.<br class=""><br class=""></div>Best regards,<br class=""><br class=""></div><b class="">Celeste </b><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><b class="">Celeste Mulena<br class=""></b><div class=""><div class=""><b class=""><span class=""><font color="#888888" class="">Grupo Estudios Atmosféricos y Ambientales<br class="">UTN-FRM / CONICET<br class="">Rodriguez 273, Ciudad CP 5500<br class="">Mendoza, Argentina<br class="">+54 (0) 261-5244692 </font></span>
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