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atmosphere.getBasicAtmParms - Function

4.1.1 Gets the current basic atmospheric parameters of the model.
Arguments





Outputs

altitude

m

Site altitude - Quantity with units of altitude, meter

allowed:

doublem

Default:

temperature

K

Ambient ground temperature - Quantity with units of temperature, K

allowed:

doubleK

Default:

pressure

mbar

Ambient pressure - Quantity with units of pressure, mbar

allowed:

doublembar

Default:

maxAltitude

km

altitude of the top pf the modelled atmosphere - Quantity with dimension of length, and units of kilometer

allowed:

doublekm

Default:

humidity

Ground relative humidity used to guess water (0-100)

allowed:

double

Default:

dTem_dh

K/km

Current Tropospheric Lapse Rate (the derivative of temperature with respect to height) - Quantity with units of K/km

allowed:

doubleK/km

Default:

dP

mbar

initial pressure step - Quantity with the units of pressure, mb

allowed:

doublembar

Default:

dPm

pressure multiplicative factor for steps

allowed:

double

Default:

h0

km

Water vapor scale height ( exp distribution ) - Quantity with the dimension of length, and units of kilometer

allowed:

doublekm

Default:

atmType

atmospheric type used to describe the behaviour above the tropopause. 1(tropical),2(mid latitude summer),3(mid latitude winter), 4(subarctic summer),5(subarctic winter), dimensionless

allowed:

string

Default:

Returns
string

Example

print "Atmospheric type:   ", at.getBasicAtmParms()[’atmType’]  
p = at.getBasicAtmParms()  
print "Ground temperature: ", p[’temperature’].value, p[’temperature’].units  
print p[’return’]           # a "pretty" listing of all the parameters

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