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Python way of plotting a Tephigram and Hodograph


I am looking to plot a Tephigram using Python and so far I have noticed that there are no real ways of doing so and I do not have the meteorological training to start from a SkewT plot and customize it to a Tephigram. I am currently using MetPy to create plots like the one below but I do not think it is a valid Tephigram. I have looked at these Issue 1,Issue 2 and Issue 3 as well as this library, but I am open to any library or method.

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Solution

  • To be clear, there's no amount of customization you can do to a Skew-T to produce a Tephigram. Skew-T log-P diagrams plot pressure vs. temperature, with pressure on a logarithmic scale on the vertical, temperature rotated (nominally 45 degrees). Tephigrams fundamentally plot entropy (potential temperature) vs. temperature, with those two axes rotated 45 degrees.

    The tephigram_python library you mentioned would have been what I linked you to, so I'm curious what its deficiencies are.