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Visualizing the cloud-capped boundary layer

Data is from a large eddy simulation of trade cumulus clouds.

  • Single timestep at 12.5 m x, y, z grid spacing

  • Variable is QN -- cloud liquid water (g/kg)

The netcdf file: bomex_qv_qn.nc -- 527 Mbytes

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ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 1
----> 1 import xarray as xr
      2 from pathlib import Path
      3 from vapor import session, renderer, dataset, camera

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xarray'

adjust path to point to file

Inspect the xarray dataset

open as a Vapor dataset

Show gridcells

  • Red: watervapor

  • Grey: cloud liquid water

Top view of cloud field, with condensation threshold set to 0.01 g/kg

Create visualizer widget

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