mm5diagnostics is a Python (http://www.python.org) module to compute atmospheric instability diagnostics from the MM5 Modelling System output files. The diagnostics are computed directly in the vertical coordinates of the model (sigma-levels).
The module is developed by the Climate Variability Group at the University of the Basque Country. It requires the readmm5v3 module for accessing the files.
The latest version of the module is available here along with previous versions:
Supported platforms:
Developers have tested this software on Linux (SuSE, RedHat, ubuntu and Debian versions) and Mac OS X (10.3.5) operating systems (big and little endian machines!!). The installation should be straightforward in any machine supporting python with distutils, a C compiler and the corresponding extensions for developing Python extensions in that platform (verbigratia... if you are using binary packages for python/Numeric, you will probably have to install some packages named like "python-dev", "python-devel", "numeric-dev", "numeric-devel", and, for instance, in Linuxes like Ubuntu, don't forget to install the gcc compiler, too!!). However, considering the huge amount of Linux distributions existing today, we will probably be of no help to you. If the installation is not straightforward in your platform, check with the support lists of your platform and platform-dependent experts will help you better than us.
After downloading, unpack the file and enter the unpacked directory:
The module is distributed with distutils, so it is automatically build and installed with the command (you need privileges to write in the default target directory, usually, /usr/local/lib/pythonXXX/site-packages):
By default the module is installed into your Python distribution directories. If you prefer another location for the module (or if you are not root in the machine where you are installing the module) type:
and it will, then, be installed in /your/path/lib/python. Don't forget to add this path to the PYTHONPATH environment variable.
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