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How are you doing the conversion currently?

Thanks,
Alice

What ECMWF dataset are you using and how are you converting it to ARL format? If you are using ecmwf2arl lease make sure you have the latest version. Try running profile or chk_file on your meteorological file. What type of error messages are you getting when you run HYSPLIT? If you are using analys...

The ecmwf2arl converter has been updated so that it resolves the following issues: As noted, forecast fields for the interim data set are put in a separate file from analysis fields. TPPT as well as SHTF, DSWF, LTHF, PBLH, CAPE are all only available as forecast fields (precipitation 228.128, surfac...

There is a program that is distributed with HYSPLIT called ecmwf2arl which will convert ECMWF grib files to HYSPLIT ARL format. It was created to work with ERA-INTERIM files downloaded through the ECMWF API but I think it should work with your forecast data as well. Below are the fields that are nee...

To trace the path of computational particles in a dispersion run you can look at the PARDUMP (particle dump) file. To see how to tell HYSPLIT to generate a particle dump file see the Users guide section Concentration / Particle / Display http://www.arl.noaa.gov/documents/reports/hysplit_user_guide.p...

Ok good - I can reproduce this problem if I try to convert a large grib file (> 2GB).
You can make the grib files smaller by using shorter time periods or downloading less pressure levels.
You can concatenate the resulting ARL files if you need to.

Cheers,
Alice

Also it is ok not to have the ZNT field for the trajectories. It is not used for the trajectory calculations.
Cheers,
Alice

It is hard to recommend which way is better. I would recommend going through the entire tutorial on trajectory with the GUI and do the following: -look at the CONTROL and SETUP.CFG file generated for each example. -look at the bash and or batch scripts for each example and try to run them. -look at ...

Try converting the files in chunks smaller than a month and see if that works. How large are your input GRIB files? Also, could you please let me know how you retrieved the GRIB files so I can try to reproduce the problem. (What pressure levels were you retrieving, what surface fields...) Cheers, Al...

You probably want to do this with some sort of scripting. You can find example scripts in examples/scripts/ folder. There are example batch scripts for windows and shell scripts for linux/unix. There are also bash and batch scripts for most of the tutorial in the Tutorial folder. Please see the tuto...