Example Notebooks

• Demo script for the analyses done in Nakamura and Huang (2018, Science)
  • Load ERA-Interim reanalysis data retrieved from ECMWF server
  • Load the dimension arrays
  • Set the level of pressure and the timestamp to display below
  • Loop through the input file and plot computed quantities
• Demo script for the analyses done in Nakamura and Huang (2018, Science): using xarray
  • Load ERA-Interim reanalysis data retrieved from ECMWF server
  • Compute LWA diagnostics
  • Visualize
  • Write to disk
• Direct inversion algorithm for reference state computation (Neal et al 2023 GRL)
  • Sample data
  • Load the dimension arrays
  • Set the level of pressure and the timestamp to display below
  • Additional parameters to compute reference state from NHN22 boundary conditions
  • Loop through the input file and store all the computed quantities in a netCDF file

• Using barotropic_qglat_lwa to compute equivalent latitude and local wave activity (total, cyclonic and anticyclonic)
• Using qgpv_eqlat_lwa to compute equivalent latitude and local wave activity from QGPV on a pressure level
• Using the object-oriented interface (BarotropicField) to compute equivalent latitude and local wave activity (total, cyclonic and anticyclonic)