FLEXPART Model/FLEXPARTLibraries

Flexpart has already been compiled on sverdrup.uio.no and Abel.

To check which version is available on abel:

module avail flexpart

To set-up your environment on Abel:

module load flexpart

This will load the default version of flexpart. The default version of flexpart may not be the latest version. If you start new development, we advice you to load the latest version (highest version number!):

module load flexpart/9.2

 

FLEXPART_HOME: directory where flexpart has been compiled/installed. You will find the source code for FLEXPART.
FLEXPART_WINDS: directory where FLEXPART windfields are stored. This directory contains windfields necessary to run all our tutorials/examples.
FLEXPART_EXAMPLES: directory where FLEXPART examples can be found.

 

Running tutorials

To run FLEXPART examples, the best is to copy them in your own directory:

cp -R $FLEXPART_EXAMPLES .

cd HelloWorld

FLEXPART

The name of the main executable is FLEXPART. FLEXPART uses an input file called pathnames where you shall specify the options directory, the output directory and the location of AVAILABLE file for WINDFIELDS.