Dry Spells

A Python package for analysing the land surface response to dry spells.

This package is a set of helper routines for running the dry spell land surface temperature analysis described in,

Gallego-Elvira, B., C.M. Taylor, P.P. Harris, and D. Ghent (2019), Evaluation of Regional‐Scale Soil Moisture‐Surface Flux Dynamics in Earth System Models Based on Satellite Observations of Land Surface Temperature, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 5480-5488, doi:10.1029/2019GL082962

Gallego-Elvira, B., C.M. Taylor, P.P. Harris, D. Ghent, K.L. Veal, and S.S. Folwell (2016), Global observational diagnosis of soil moisture control on the land surface energy balance, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 2623-2631, doi:10.1002/2016GL068178

Folwell, S.S., P.P. Harris, and C.M. Taylor (2015), Large-scale surface responses during European dry spells diagnosed from land surface temperature, J. Hydrometeorol., doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0064.1

How to install

If you are installing the package from this source using setuptools there are prerequisites listed below that must be satisfied prior to running,

pip install .

Requirements

This package requires Python 3; Python 2 is not supported. This package uses Cartopy, which has several dependencies that cannot be satisfied through setuptools, so must be available prior to running the installation. These are cython (version 0.15.1 or later), numpy (version 1.14 or later), udunits2, cf-units (version 2 or later), geos, proj and pyke.

NB Here geos is the Geometry Engine, Open Source not the Google Earth Overlay Server, which is what you get if you pip install geos.