FLEXPART tutorial
This tutorial explains how to use the FLEXPART Lagrangian dispersion model within Metview
Note
Please note that this tutorial requires Metview version 5.0 or later.
Preparations
First start Metview; at ECMWF, the command to use is metview (see Metview at ECMWF for details of Metview versions). You should see the main Metview desktop popping up.
The icons you will work with are already prepared for you - please download the following file:
and save it in your $HOME/metview
directory.
You should see it appear on your main Metview desktop, from where you can right-click on it, then choose execute to extract the files.
You should now (after a few seconds) see a flexpart_tutorial folder. Please open it up.
The input data
The input data is already prepared for you and is located in folder ‘Data’. You will find a FLEXPART Prepare icon that was used to generate the data in folder ‘Prepare’. The corresponding macro code can also be found there.
You do not need to run the data preparation. However, if you wish to do so please note that it requires MARS access and you must set the Output Path parameter accordingly.