Empirical scaling of ELMy H-mode pedestals on Alcator C-Mod and comparisons with the EPED model

H-mode discharges on the Alcator C-Mod tokamak featuring edge- localized modes (ELMs) are used to find empirical scalings of the plasma pedestal with bulk plasma and engineering parameters. Pedestals in ELMy discharges typically reach densities of $5 \times 10^{19}$--$2.5 \times 10^{20}$ m$^{-3}$ and temperatures of 400--1000 eV (corresponding to 20--50 kPa in the pressure pedestal), over a width of 3--5\% of poloidal flux. We present the results of a wide range of C-Mod ELMy H- mode discharges, including plasma current scans over 700kA--1MA, as well as shaping variation both in elongation (1.45--1.6) and upper/lower triangularity (0.15--0.3 and 0.7--0.8), in continuation of previous ELMy pedestal studies on C-Mod. Observed pedestal scalings are compared with the results of the most recent iteration of the EPED class of models, which uniquely predict the pedestal width and height for a set of scalar input parameters by a combination of stability calculations for coupled edge kink/peeling and ballooning MHD modes, and the localized kinetic analogue to the MHD ballooning mode.