Creating a consistent CONUS grid
Posted: June 17th, 2022, 1:16 pm
In my project I am trying to create a consistent concentration grid that covers CONUS. I will have emissions files for different fire events and want to be able to perform statistics on the results.
For example, I have one fire event happening at (lat lon) = (36.1419 -118.1856)
In the CONTROL, I set the center to be the approximate location of CONUS (center-lat center-lon) = (38.9 -98.5)
I also set the span to be wide enough for CONUS: (span-lat, span-lon) = (40, 60).
So from this setup, I expect HYSPLIT to create a concentration grid where the top-most latitude is 38.9 + 20 = 58.9 degs lat (and then similarly for the other edges). However, the resulting grid stays over the emission location, and does not cover all of CONUS (see image attached).
I have tried using ridiculous values for the span in the CONTROL file like (140, 160) and (1400, 1600) but the final grid remains the same, the HYSPLIT runtime stays the same, and so does the concentration output binary file size.
Is there some combination of emissions file and CONTROL file settings that I would have to do to create a consistent concentration grid over CONUS, but also use emissions files for fire events occurring anywhere and at anytime in CONUS?
PS: On my metdata
You will notice that I am using "NARR_large_file2" which is 10 years of NARR data which I have "cat" 'ed together to make the script easier to manage for my use case.
For example, I have one fire event happening at (lat lon) = (36.1419 -118.1856)
In the CONTROL, I set the center to be the approximate location of CONUS (center-lat center-lon) = (38.9 -98.5)
I also set the span to be wide enough for CONUS: (span-lat, span-lon) = (40, 60).
So from this setup, I expect HYSPLIT to create a concentration grid where the top-most latitude is 38.9 + 20 = 58.9 degs lat (and then similarly for the other edges). However, the resulting grid stays over the emission location, and does not cover all of CONUS (see image attached).
I have tried using ridiculous values for the span in the CONTROL file like (140, 160) and (1400, 1600) but the final grid remains the same, the HYSPLIT runtime stays the same, and so does the concentration output binary file size.
Is there some combination of emissions file and CONTROL file settings that I would have to do to create a consistent concentration grid over CONUS, but also use emissions files for fire events occurring anywhere and at anytime in CONUS?
PS: On my metdata
You will notice that I am using "NARR_large_file2" which is 10 years of NARR data which I have "cat" 'ed together to make the script easier to manage for my use case.