Thermo Inset Missing Indices about sharppy HOT 10 CLOSED

Isaac Pato made a recommendation to make one of the indices the 0-3 MLCAPE.

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I believe 0-3 km MLCAPE and VGP was also suggested by Kevin Polston.

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Added the 0-3 MLCAPE to the thermo window. Two spots remain. Other options for indices include some of the ones I've just included:

• VGP
• EHI
• SHERB
• Microburst Composite (MBURST)
• Derecho Composite Parameter (DCP)
• SWEAT

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Also, I'm not sure the 0-3 km CAPE routine is working properly. The sounding from the Washington, IL tornado should have some 0-3 km MLCAPE, but it's showing up as 0. BTW, it also seems to affect the ESP variable.

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(Sorry, let's continue this discussion here; didn't see you'd started commenting here)

Yeah, the SPC has 122 J/kg 0-3 km CAPE

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ESP also uses the 0-3 MLCAPE. Makes me wonder if there's an issue with the routine that assigns the b3km attribute to the Parcel object. It's worked in the past for me, but I don't remember if we've actually ever done some verification of that variable.

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Might be best to keep those out until we can verify their correctness, then.

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Have you found any instances where the 3CAPE is correct? I find it hard to believe that it's always been wrong, because I believe in my checks ESP has been correct in the past. Just trying to get an idea of whether or not the issue happens every time it runs.

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No, I've checked against the Pilger, NE sounding (2014-06-16 19Z OAX) and the 2013-05-16 00Z FWD sounding. Both of them should have non-zero 3CAPE, and both come up 0 in SHARPpy.

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Wow. That's very surprising that a bug like this as gotten away from us this far into the development. Hmmm.

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