Atmospheric Physics Tools
Browse all available atmospheric physics tools.
Available tools
- Acoustic Gravity Wave Wavenumber Component Resolve a supplied wave-number magnitude along horizontal and vertical axes at an explicit radian angle measured from horizontal.
- Acoustic Virtual Temperature Ratio Tool Ideal acoustic temperature from c²/(gamma*R) with fully supplied constants, without humidity or wind correction.
- Aerosol Stokes Relaxation Time Term Tool Calculate aerosol stokes relaxation time term from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Atmospheric Bin Radiance Weight Tool Sum supplied piecewise-constant radiance-density contributions with explicit bin widths and instrument response.
- Atmospheric Emissivity Blackbody Flux Term Tool Greybody hemispheric thermal flux with an explicit SI Stefan-Boltzmann constant; no atmospheric emissivity model is selected.
- Atmospheric Refraction Supplied Gradient Term Tool Local near-horizontal ray curvature n-gradient/n and first-order signed deflection; no standard-atmosphere refraction table is selected.
- Atmospheric Wave Phase Group Gap Tool Signed group-minus-phase velocity on a shared scalar propagation axis.
- Brightness Temperature Reference Gap Tool Compare supplied brightness temperatures without deriving them from spectral radiance.
- Brunt Vaisala Temperature Gradient Term Tool Dry ideal-gas N squared with upward-positive temperature gradient, constant cp and SI units; moist stability is outside this model.
- Cloud Droplet Effective Area Term Tool Number-weighted spherical projected area and the third/second radius moment ratio.
- Cloud Droplet Terminal Drag Regime Term Tool Stokes creeping-flow terminal-speed estimate and its diameter-based Reynolds number; caller must establish regime validity.
- Cloud Layer Optical Depth Step Accumulate one homogeneous layer extinction coefficient times thickness into supplied optical depth.
- Cloud Path Liquid Water Contribution Integrate one uniform cloud layer’s explicitly supplied liquid-water content over its path length.
- Friction Velocity Stress Density Factor Tool Calculate friction velocity stress density factor from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Gravity Wave Intrinsic Frequency Shift Tool Consistent angular-frequency/wavenumber convention with a signed scalar background flow.
- Hydrostatic Density Pressure Layer Step Tool Calculate hydrostatic density pressure layer step from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Lidar Overlap Normalized Return Term Tool Background-subtracted range-squared return normalized by explicit overlap and pulse energy; no aerosol inversion is performed.
- Lidar Range Bin Path Length Convert supplied two-way lidar bin time width to one-way range using an explicit positive propagation speed.
- Lidar Range Squared Factor Apply the geometric range-squared factor to one background-corrected lidar signal sample without an atmospheric inversion.
- Lidar Window Transmission Basis Tool Correct a supplied signal for explicitly counted traversals of a uniform transmitting window.
- Monin Obukhov Dimensionless Height Term Tool Calculate monin obukhov dimensionless height term from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Optical Path Airmass Factor Tool Use a plane-parallel secant airmass approximation, excluding the horizon and atmospheric curvature.
- Potential Vorticity One Layer Term Tool Hydrostatic vertical-vorticity layer approximation g*(f+zeta)*(thetaUpper-thetaLower)/(pLower-pUpper), excluding horizontal tilting terms.
- Pressure Weighted Layer Share Tool Calculate pressure weighted layer share from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Radar Dbz Linear Ratio Convert the difference of two dBZ reflectivity observations to a linear reflectivity ratio.
- Radar Gate Overlap Fraction Tool Calculate radar gate overlap fraction from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Radar Nyquist Velocity Interval Calculate the single-PRF monostatic Doppler radar unambiguous velocity interval using an explicit half-open convention.
- Radar Range Gate Volume Term Tool Approximate a thin radar gate volume by r²*solidAngle*depth, not a thick-shell exact volume.
- Radar Range Resolution Pulse Width Term Tool Uncompressed monostatic pulse range resolution from two-way propagation.
- Radar Reflectivity Linear Db Crosswalk Tool Single reflectivity representation change; no averaging or rain-rate conversion.
- Radiance Bin Width Factor Tool Constant-bin supplied spectral radiance integral with an explicit compatible spectral-axis factor.
- Radiative Absorption Path Transmission Calculate homogeneous-path Beer transmission from supplied nonnegative absorption coefficient and length, excluding scattering and emission.
- Radiative Cooling Flux Divergence Term Tool Layer energy balance with upward-positive net flux and tendency in K/s for SI inputs.
- Radiometer Bandwidth Normalization Tool Uniform spectral-density normalization under a caller-asserted flat-band approximation.
- Radiometer Dark Current Subtraction Term Subtract supplied radiometer dark signal from raw signal in matching calibrated units, retaining negative residuals.
- Radiometer Field Of View Share Tool Calculate radiometer field of view share from explicit caller-supplied inputs.
- Radiosonde Ascent Speed Compute a signed mean radiosonde vertical speed between two heights over a positive elapsed interval.
- Rayleigh Scattering Wavelength Ratio Tool Pure inverse-fourth-power Rayleigh scaling with refractive-index and composition changes excluded.
- Refractivity Dry Wet Component Pair Combine explicitly supplied nonnegative dry and wet refractivity components and describe the wet share.
- Scintillation Normalized Intensity Deviation Return one normalized intensity deviation and its squared contribution to a scintillation index using a supplied positive mean.
- Sky View Zenith Angle Weight Return one cosine-projected solid-angle contribution from an upper-hemisphere sky patch, without normalizing a complete sky-view integral.
- Thermal Wind One Component Gradient Tool One explicitly oriented log-pressure thermal-wind component; horizontal gradient sign and pressure-ratio order fix the returned sign.
- Turbulence Reynolds Stress Term Return one instantaneous contribution -rho*u′*v′ to the kinematic Reynolds-stress average using signed velocity fluctuations.
- Turbulent Flux Instantaneous Covariance Term Multiply supplied signed velocity and scalar fluctuations for one unaveraged turbulent covariance contribution.
- Turbulent Kinetic Energy One Component Tool Half the population mean square of one caller-supplied velocity-fluctuation component; the mean must already be removed.
- Wind Profile Log Height Reference Calculate the natural logarithm of an explicit positive height-to-roughness ratio without estimating wind speed or stability correction.