ucar.visad.quantities
Class AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature

java.lang.Object
  ucar.visad.quantities.Quantity
      ucar.visad.quantities.ScalarQuantity
          ucar.visad.quantities.Temperature
              ucar.visad.quantities.AirTemperature
                  ucar.visad.quantities.AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature

public class AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature
extends AirTemperature

Provides support for the quantity of equivalent potential temperature.

An instance of this class is immutable.

Version:

$Id: AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature.java,v 1.8 2005/05/13 18:35:36 jeffmc Exp $

Author:

Steven R. Emmerson

Field Summary

protected static Real

lOverCSubP Latent heat of water-vapor evaporation over speciic heat capacity of of dry air at constant pressure.

Constructor Summary

protected

AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature(String name) Constructs from a name.

Method Summary

static Data	create(Data temperature, Data mixingRatio) Creates an adiabatic equivalent 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.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

Field Detail

lOverCSubP

protected static Real lOverCSubP

Latent heat of water-vapor evaporation over speciic heat capacity of of dry air at constant pressure.

Constructor Detail

AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature

protected AdiabaticEquivalentTemperature(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 temperature,
                          Data mixingRatio)
                   throws TypeException,
                          VisADException,
                          RemoteException

Creates an adiabatic equivalent temperature data object.

Parameters:

temperature - The temperature data object.

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

Returns:

The adiabatic equivalent 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.