Temporal varied emissions

[kmwai]

Dear all,

I want to set up a concentration run in Hysplit4 with temporal varied emissions at a single emission source, using the EMITIMES file with 99 "Emission Cycle Data Records". The content in my EMITIMES file is someting like:

YYYY MM DD HH DURATION(hhhh) #RECORDS
YYYY MM DD HH M DURATION(hhmm) LAT LON HGT(m) RATE(/h) AREA(m2) HEAT(w)
1995 10 16 00 9999 99
1995 10 16 00 00 0300 40.243 -100.406 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0
1995 10 16 03 00 0300 40.243 -100.406 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0
... (totally 99 records)

The file format is similar to that for the SMOKE case in:
http://www.meteozone.com/tutorial/html/cust_smoke.html

For the corresponding CONTROL file, if I set ONE starting location, the model cannot run. If I set 99 starting locations with the same lat, long, height for all locations, the model runs successfully. Did I properly set up the model? Please suggest otherwise.

Many thanks.

KM Wai

[ariel.stein]

Your configuration is correct. However, in order to avoid repeating 99 times the location in the CONTROL file you can use one header per record as follows:


YYYY MM DD HH DURATION(hhhh) #RECORDS
YYYY MM DD HH M DURATION(hhmm) LAT LON HGT(m) RATE(/h) AREA(m2) HEAT(w)
1995 10 16 00 0300 1
1995 10 16 00 00 0300 40.243 -100.406 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0
1995 10 16 00 0300 1
1995 10 16 00 00 0300 40.243 -100.406 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0
1995 10 16 00 0300 1
1995 10 16 00 00 0300 40.243 -100.406 10.0 3.0 0.0 0.0
etc....