flux_library

The flux computing library from cerform allows to compute air-sea flux parameters from bulk inputs variables (SST, T, Q, Qs, U,...). Parameterization available are:

• COARE3 (Fairall et al. 2003)
• COARE4 (Fairall et al. 2011)
• LKB (Liu, Katsaros and Bussinger (1979))
• Large & Pond (1981, 1982)
• Smith (1988)

disclaimer:

This library is mainly a transcoding of existing matlab(r) and Fortran functions. Some of them have been turn into vectorial computing (COARE3).

sources:

method	source code	documentation
COARE3	cor30a.m	ftp://ftp1.esrl.noaa.gov/users/cfairall/wcrp_wgsf/computer_programs/cor3_0/
COARE4	coare40vn.m
Smith

usage:

from cerform.flux.coare3 import coare3
inputs = {'u':12.5,'ts':289.48,'Q':4.56}
res = coare3(inputs)

validation: