iorg

typhon.cloudmask.iorg(cloudmask, connectivity=1)[source]

Calculate the cloud cluster index ‘I_org’.

See also

scipy.integrate.trapz():

Used to calculate the integral along the given axis using the composite trapezoidal rule.

Parameters

  • cloudmask (ndarray) – 2d binary cloud mask.

  • connectivity (int) – Maximum number of orthogonal hops to consider a pixel/voxel as a neighbor (see skimage.measure.label()).

Returns

cloud cluster index I_org.

Return type

float

References

Tompkins, A. M., and A. G. Semie (2017), Organization of tropical convection in low vertical wind shears: Role of updraft entrainment, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9, 1046–1068, doi: 10.1002/2016MS000802.