Brian Rose, University at Albany
This is a stand-alone Python wrapper for the Emanuel convection scheme.
The primary use-case is to serve as the under-the-hood moist convection driver
for climlab, but it can be used as a
stand-alone model if you are familiar with Fortran source code.
This is a lightweight wrapper that emulates the Fortran interface as closely as possible.
The original convect43c
code is bundled here, courtesy of Kerry Emanuel.
Pre-built binaries for many platforms are available from conda-forge.
To install in the current environment:
conda install climlab-emanuel-convection --channel conda-forge
or create a self-contained environment:
conda create --name my_env python=3.11 climlab-emanuel-convection --channel conda-forge
conda activate my_env
See below for instructions on how to build from source.
You can import the Fortran driver into a Python session with
from climlab_emanuel_convection import emanuel_convection
Please see the directory climlab_emanuel_convection/tests/
directory in this repository
for working examples that set up all the necessary input arrays and call the driver.
Here are instructions to create a build environment (including Fortran compiler) with conda/mamba
Starting from the root of the climlab-sbm-convection
repo (example for Apple M1 machine, see ./ci/
for other environment files):
mamba env create --file ./ci/requirements-macos-arm64.yml
conda activate convect_build_env
Or, to specify the Python version, you can do
mamba create --name convect_build_env python=3.11 --channel conda-forge
mamba env update --file ./ci/requirements-macos-arm64.yml
conda activate convect_build_env
From the root of the repository, do this:
python -m pip install . --no-deps -vv
To run tests, do this from any directory other than the climlab-emanuel-convection repo:
pytest -v --pyargs climlab_emanuel_convection
- Version 0.3 (released August 2024) modernizes the build infrastructure (now using meson) and successfully builds on Python 3.12. No changes to the Python wrapper.
- Version 0.2 is the first public release (April 2022). The Python wrapper code has been extracted from climlab v0.7.13.