<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jim,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once upon a time, I had asked the similar question and here is the good response from Bill Ladwig:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/2016-May/005805.html" class="">http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/2016-May/005805.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Deniz</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(132, 132, 132); font-size: 11px; border-collapse: separate;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial;">--</span><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><font face="Arial" class="">Deniz Bozkurt, PhD<br class="">Postdoctoral Researcher</font></div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><font face="Arial" class="">Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2)<span class="" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 12px;"> <</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.cr2.cl/" class="">www.cr2.cl</a>></span></font></div></div><span class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial;">Department of Geophysics</span>, University of Chile<span class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial;"></span><div class=""><span class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial;"></span><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><span class="" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><font face="Arial" class="">Blanco Encalada 2002, Santiago, Chile</font></span></div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;">Mobil: +56 (9) 56107310</div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/deniboz/" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/deniboz</a></div><div class="" style="border-collapse: separate;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 18, 2019, at 3:39 PM, Jim Means <<a href="mailto:jim@weatherextreme.com" class="">jim@weatherextreme.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Hi NCL talk,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I always assumed that the NCL functions that began wrf_ were only usable with WRF. However, while researching how to compute convective inhibition (CIN) from RAP fields I came to the conclusion that those functions are NOT necessarily WRF-specific, and that it might be possible for me to use wrf_cape3d to calculate CIN from the RAP model.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Do other people agree with this? And is this true about a lot of the wrf_ functions in NCL?</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Thanks,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Jim<br class=""></p><div class="moz-signature" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><p style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 13px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 700 !important;" class="">James D. 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