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Windspharm: A High-Level Library for Global Wind Field Computations Using Spherical Harmonics Cover

Windspharm: A High-Level Library for Global Wind Field Computations Using Spherical Harmonics

Journal of Open Research Software
Volume 4 (2016): Issue 1
By: Andrew Dawson  
Open Access
|Aug 2016
Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Examples of quantities computed with windspharm. a) Wind speed (colours) and direction (arrows) on the 500 hPa pressure surface from the ECMWF analysis valid at 00:00 UTC on the 27th January 2016. b) Relative vorticity, and c) streamfunction, both computed from the wind field using windspharm.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.129 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 9, 2016
Accepted on: Jul 13, 2016
Published on: Aug 2, 2016
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Spherical harmonics,
Meteorology,
Wind vectors,
Python

© 2016 Andrew Dawson, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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