static_stability¶
- metpy.calc.static_stability(pressure, temperature, vertical_dim=0)¶
Calculate the static stability within a vertical profile.
\[\sigma = -\frac{RT}{p} \frac{\partial \ln \theta}{\partial p}\]This formula is based on equation 4.3.6 in [Bluestein1992].
- Parameters
pressure (
pint.Quantity
) – Profile of atmospheric pressuretemperature (
pint.Quantity
) – Profile of temperaturevertical_dim (int, optional) – The axis corresponding to vertical in the pressure and temperature arrays, defaults to 0.
- Returns
pint.Quantity
– The profile of static stability
Changed in version 1.0: Renamed
axis
parametervertical_dim