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Dear all

I want to run dispersion simulations of pm 2.5 originating from wildfires. I have a pretty large dataset of wildfire emissions consisting of lots of locations during multiple years. I worked through the tutorials (which are excellent by the way!) to get familiar with Hysplit. I know how to select the necessary specifications through the GUI but since I am working with a large dataset I have to automate as many steps as possible. I tried the SplitR package for R but unfortunately there seem to be issues with the package. I assume scripting would be the best option. Since I have no experience I was wondering if anyone knows if there are additional resources to get familiar with writing scripts for Hysplit. I saw that there is some information in the tutorials. Does anyone know if there is additional information?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best
Michael

Most sections of the HYSPLIT tutorial come with scripts. The scripts may be modified to suit your needs.

Let's take, as an example, Sec. 14.1 for Fire Smoke at https://www.ready.noaa.gov/documents/Tu ... smoke.html. Under the section title, you will find a penguin icon and a terminal-and-gear icon. By clicking the penguin icon, you can download a shell script for Linux/Apple computers that performs the steps described on the page. The other icon is to download a batch script for Windows PC. Download a script depending on your computer to your HYSPLIT working directory. Open a terminal and change directory to the working directory. Execute the script for a test drive.

Thank you, that's what I was looking for.

Michael