7. Retrieve ECMWF fields for FLEXPART

Uses number of fortran scripts which are run on MARS.

Need to copy the following directory and files to your home directory on ecgate: cp -r /home/ms/sbc/flex_extract_ecgate_V4/ YourDestination

List of files:

flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate
extract_ecmwf_ftpbase
seq_control.V4
seq_extract.V4
submit
source.tar

Edit the times in the file:

seq_control.V4

Check that the file flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate contains the following:

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BEGIN: modification of config file

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cat <<EOF >CONTROL_ERA DAY1 YYYYMMDD1 DAY2 YYYYMMDD2 DTIME 3 FORCE_EPS 0 FORCE_EI 0 M_GRID 100 M_LEFT -17800 M_LOWER -9000 M_UPPER 9000 M_RIGHT 18100 M_LEVEL 91 M_RESOL 255 M_GAUSS 1 M_ACCURACY 24 M_OMEGA 0 M_OMEGADIFF 0 M_SMOOTH 0 M_ADDPAR /27/28/173/186/187/188/235/139/39 M_FORMAT GRIB2 GATEWAY ecaccess.ecmwf.int DESTINATION flexpart (or change to your ECSTORAGE 1 ECTRANS 1 ECFSDIR ectmp:/${USER}/oper_YYYY_MM/ MAILOPS ${USER} MAILFAIL ${USER} EXEDIR . SOURCECODE ecgate:flex_extract_ecgate_V4 EOF

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-END: modification of config file

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Copy the template file flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate to extract_ecmwf_ftpbase

cp flex_ecmwf_91_global_1.0_ecgate extract_ecmwf_ftpbase

Run the job using:

./submit

Check flexpart documentation on website to see how to generate files for flexpart, for example for nested sub-domain

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