Overview of the FLEXPART interface
What is FLEXPART?
FLEXPART is a Lagrangian particle dispersion model developed and used by a scientific community. It can be driven by meteorological input data from a variety of global and regional models including ECMWF analyses and forecasts.
The home of the software is https://www.flexpart.eu/.
What Metview version do I need for FLEXPART?
Note
The minimum Metview version to use is 5.0.
How to use FLEXPART with Metview?
Metview provides a high level interface to prepare input data for FLEXPART from ECMWF’s MARS archive (via the FLEXPART Prepare icon),
perform a FLEXPART simulation (via the FLEXPART Run icon)
and visualise the resulting output files. For the visualisation the gridded outputs in FLEXPART’s custom binary format are converted to GRIB (click here for details).
What FLEXPART version is supported in Metview?
Note
Please note that the Metview interface was written for version 9.02 of FLEXPART.