Moist Energy Balance Model (mebm)

About

This repository contains a simple Python package for a moist energy balance model (mebm). The model is used in Peterson and Boos (2020) to analyze feedbacks and eddy diffusivity in the context of tropical rainfall shifts. Features include

• Easily customizable initial conditions, albedo, insolation, and outgoing longwave radiation schemes
• Efficient and scalable multigrid numerical scheme
• Ability to perturb insolation (as in Clark et al. 2018) and analyze energy flux equator (EFE) shifts.

Getting Started

See the documentation here to get started.

Contact

For questions and suggestions, either submit an issue here or send an email to hgpeterson "at" caltech "dot" edu.

References

Clark, S.K., Y. Ming, I.M. Held, P.J. Phillipps, 2018: The Role of the Water Vapor Feedback in the ITCZ Response to Hemispherically Asymmetric Forcings. Journal of Climate. 31, 3659–3678.

Peterson, H. and W. Boos, 2020: Feedbacks and Eddy Diffusivity in an Energy Balance Model of Tropical Rainfall Shifts. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 3, 11.