[ncl-talk] Regarding the computation of CAPE

[Barry Lynn]

Hello:

Is there a reason why you are not using a built in function?

https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/wrf_cape_2d.shtml

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:26 AM Prashanth Bhalachandran <
prashanth.bhalachandran at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kind Regards!
>
> I just have a simple question regarding the computation of CAPE. I
> understand that while calculating the CAPE, we need to subtract the
> potential temperature of the parcel and its environment. My question is :
> how do I get the temperature of the environment and the parcel? Is it
> simply the domain average between two levels of interest? None of the
> papers I referred to gives this detail. I tried going through the fortran
> code but I couldn’t decipher this. Can you please help me understand?
>
> Thank you,
> Prashanth
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