Heatwave Diagnostics Package: Efficiently Compute Heatwave Metrics Across Parameter Spaces
Abstract
The heatwave diagnostics package (HDP) is a Python package that provides the climate research community with tools to compute heatwave metrics for the large volumes of data produced by earth system model large ensembles, across multiple measures of heat, extreme heat thresholds, and heatwave definitions.The HDP leverages performance-oriented design using xarray, Dask, and Numba to maximize the use of available hardware resources while maintaining accessibility through an intuitive interface and well-documented user guide.This approach empowers the user to generate metrics for a wide and diverse range of heatwave types across the parameter space.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Climate variability and models
Computational Physics and Python Applications
Climate Change and Environmental Impact
Publication details
- Journal / source
- The Journal of Open Source Software
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 118
- Pages
- 8111–8111
- Publication date
- 3 February 2026