HYSPLIT Forum: hysplitbbs.arl.noaa.gov

Here is an example of an EMITTIMES file. This example emits 1 unit of mass over 5 minutes. 15% of the mass is emitted from 0-50m, 15% is emitted from 50-300m, and 70% is emitted from 300-1000 m. (DURATION is 0005= 5 minutes. To emit 1 unit mass total the rate is 12 unit mass/hour. 12*0.70 = 8.4 so r...

Hi Marijn, Glad to hear that you are enjoying HYSPLIT. The tdump (trajectory output) files are in ascii format and so it is fairly easy to read them into any program to do your analysis with. Personally, I really like to use python but you should be able to use whatever language you like. In case yo...

We are working on a converter for the ecmwf interim dataset and will have a solution soon. There are several reasons why the current generic grib2arl does handle the ecmwf interim data well. As noted, forecast fields for the interim data set are put in a separate file from analysis fields. TPPT as w...