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MetPy is a collection of tools in Python for reading, visualizing and performing calculations with weather data.
https://unidata.github.io/MetPy/
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U.S Standard Atmosphere model based on height #3585

Open cyschneck opened 1 month ago

cyschneck commented 1 month ago

What should we add?

Are there any plans to include the U.S Standard Atmosphere model or the International Standard Atmosphere? Specifically, functions to return the pressure, temperature, density of the Earth's atmosphere based on height above sea level. Either with the ICAO 1993 model or the NASA 1976 model or a more recent model

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dopplershift commented 2 weeks ago

We certainly have some functions that are inherently based on the assumption of a U.S. Standard Atmosphere (1976). The calculation of the profiles themselves are hidden within those functions currently (e.g. converting pressure to height). There's not really any cycles on the Unidata dev team to go further, but I'd be happy to review and merge a community PR adding functions to return the profile directly, and preferably refactor our existing calcs to make use of this more general functionality.