/land_atm_coupling

Diagnostic scripts for evaluating land-atmosphere interactions in climate models

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Diagnostic scripts for evaluating land-atmosphere interactions in climate models.

Author: Jess Baker (j.c.baker@leeds.ac.uk)

The scripts in this repository were developed as part of the CSSP Brazil LAPSE project at the University of Leeds, UK, and accompany the following manuscript:

Baker, J. C. A., Castilho De Souza, D., Kubota, P. Y., Buermann, W., Coelho, C. a. S., Andrews, M. B., Gloor, M., Garcia-Carreras, L., Figueroa, S. N. & Spracklen, D. V. 2021. An Assessment of Land–Atmosphere Interactions over South America Using Satellites, Reanalysis, and Two Global Climate Models. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22, 905-922.

If you use any of the diagnostic scripts in your research please cite the reference above and any diagnostic-specific references within. If you have any questions, comments or feedback please email Jess Baker (email address at the top of this file).

Diagnostic scripts:

  • terrestrial_coupling_index.py
  • zengs_gamma.py
  • T_ET_metric.py
  • betts_approach.py
  • two_legged_metric.py

Script providing examples of applying each diagnostic:

  • examples_of_application.py

These scripts are largely based on the Iris Python package (https://scitools.org.uk/iris/docs/latest/) and are designed to be run with observations and model output in NetCDF format.