firedrakeproject / gusto

Three dimensional atmospheric dynamical core using the Gung Ho numerics.
http://firedrakeproject.org/gusto/
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Add dew point and wet-bulb temperature diagnostics #525

Closed tommbendall closed 3 months ago

tommbendall commented 3 months ago

This adds diagnostics for dew point and wet-bulb temperatures. There is probably no application in which we will use them but they were fun to make. Physically these temperatures are defined by implicit formulae, so can't be solved analytically. I have implemented them through fixed-point methods. I could've used one of the empirical formulae but this would've been less fun.

Actually the more important contributions from this PR are:

I have also attached a document describing how I arrived at the implementation of these diagnostics ...

Wet_Temperatures.pdf