Describe the Enhancement

Enhances the PointStat AMDAR PBLH use case in three general ways: 1) Adds a second PBLH method; now this use case computes PBLH via two methods: A "Theta Increase" (TI) method, and a "critical Bulk Richardson Number" (BR) method. 2) Expands from 4 to 71 airports (and reads in a csv file with one row for each airport and loops through all airports). 3) Bugfixes, refactoring, and optimizations. Note: this enhancement removes two components of the original use case: 1) removes the Gen_vx_mask components; instead processing within the specified lat/lon ranges within the python script, and 2) removes the option to specify different PT_delta values, using only PT_delta=1.25, which is the same as used in the HRRR model.

Time Estimate

2-4 weeks

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• Add critical Bulk Richardson Number PBLH method
• Expand from 4 to 71 airports; reading a csv file to loop through
• Bugfixes, Refactoring, and Optimizations

Relevant Deadlines

May 2025; so that it can be included with the METplus 6.1.0 release.

Funding Source

NOAA GSL/DTC R2O

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