Ryan May

@DanielAdriaansen Yes, I think what you mentioned there is in line with what @dcamron suggested. I'll add that another consequence of this (just hit in a workshop) is that if...

@Meteodan It's definitely appreciated to have the review of someone with intimate knowledge of what to expect.

@sgdecker > using virtual temperature is decreasing the CAPE? I would expect almost always there would be an increase That was my intuition too, but I (incorrectly) managed to convince...

@DennisHeimbigner Well right now it would seem that it's entirely possible that NcZarr S3 support is completely busted on Windows to the point of locking up the library. Fixing this...

@DennisHeimbigner If the alternate system strikes the best engineering trade-offs (runtime performance, dependencies vs. code we have to understand and maintain), that's great, provided @WardF is on-board. I do need...

Here's a link to the same article, but to make more clear, it *is* a publication in an AMS journal: https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAS-D-17-0102.1

I don't know that I want to start the alternatives with this, but I think it would be reasonable to replace our existing with this. I actually like the idea...

@jthielen 🤢 Thanks for looking into it. There's definitely a lot more to be figured out before we can move on this.

@robwarrenwx @DLFinney Thanks the detailed analysis and bringing this up. I'm pretty convinced scientifically this is a robust, solid approach for us to move towards. The items I see: 1....

Romps (2021) for dewpoint is interesting (and we'd need to use that for `saturation_vapor_pressure` as well), but that is definitely best considered separately. Same for Romps (2015) for theta_e as...