Calculating surface heat fluxes;sensible and latent heat flux

[DianaOkune]

Does anyone have an idea on how to calculate latent and sensible heat fluxes using profile measurements of temperature and windspeed using metpy(The profile method).

[dcamron]

This isn't something that MetPy already provides, and I'm not at all familiar with this method of flux estimation (beyond a quick literature Google!) Can you walk us through the steps and parameters needed for this method? With some more information, we might be able to let you know what tools MetPy already provides that could help you accomplish this. There's also always room for this functionality to end up as a part of MetPy in the future, as well. Thanks!

[dopplershift]

I will add that we do already provide a calculation of kinematic flux which relies on being given time series measurements of a velocity component and another scalar (like temperature or another wind component). We're not boundary layer experts, though I'd be happy to merge a PR adding additional calculations for fluxes using profiles.