ucar.visad.quantities
Class EquivalentPotentialTemperature

java.lang.Object
  ucar.visad.quantities.Quantity
      ucar.visad.quantities.ScalarQuantity
          ucar.visad.quantities.Temperature
              ucar.visad.quantities.AirTemperature
                  ucar.visad.quantities.PotentialTemperature
                      ucar.visad.quantities.EquivalentPotentialTemperature

Direct Known Subclasses:

SaturationEquivalentPotentialTemperature

public class EquivalentPotentialTemperature
extends PotentialTemperature

Provides support for the quantity of equivalent potential temperature.

An instance of this class is immutable.

Version:

$Id: EquivalentPotentialTemperature.java,v 1.10 2005/05/13 18:35:39 jeffmc Exp $

Author:

Steven R. Emmerson

Constructor Summary

protected

EquivalentPotentialTemperature(String name) Constructs from a name.

Method Summary

static Data	create(Data pressure, Data temperature, Data mixingRatio) Creates an equivalent potential temperature data object.
static RealTupleType	getRealTupleType() Obtains the RealTupleType associated with this class.
static RealType	getRealType() Obtains the RealType associated with this class.

Methods inherited from class ucar.visad.quantities.PotentialTemperature

create, createAirTemperature, factor

Methods inherited from class ucar.visad.quantities.ScalarQuantity

getRealType, getRealType, realType

Methods inherited from class ucar.visad.quantities.Quantity

realTupleType, setRealTupleType

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EquivalentPotentialTemperature

protected EquivalentPotentialTemperature(String name)
                                  throws VisADException

Constructs from a name.

Parameters:

name - The name for this quantity.

Throws:

VisADException - Couldn't create necessary VisAD object.

Method Detail

getRealType

public static RealType getRealType()
                            throws VisADException

Obtains the RealType associated with this class.

Returns:

The RealType associated with this class.

Throws:

VisADException - Couldn't perform necessary VisAD operation.

getRealTupleType

public static RealTupleType getRealTupleType()
                                      throws VisADException

Obtains the RealTupleType associated with this class.

Returns:

The RealTupleType associated with this class.

Throws:

VisADException - Couldn't perform necessary VisAD operation.

create

public static Data create(Data pressure,
                          Data temperature,
                          Data mixingRatio)
                   throws TypeException,
                          VisADException,
                          RemoteException

Creates an equivalent potential temperature data object.

Parameters:

pressure - The air pressure data object.

temperature - The temperature data object.

mixingRatio - The water-vapor mixing-ratio data object.

Returns:

The equivalent potential temperature data object corresponding to the input arguments.

Throws:

TypeException - An input argument has wrong type.

VisADException - Couldn't create necessary VisAD object.

RemoteException - Java RMI failure.