Highlight Index

Model Overview

• Lagrangian vs. Eulerian
• Particle, Puff, Hybrid
• CONTROL & SETUP.CFG files
• Command line vs. GUI

Meteorological Data

• Meteorological data format
• chk_file utility
• Concatenating meteorology files
• GRIB data conversion
• Forecast meteorological data
• Archived meteorological data
• NOMADS
• Plot meteorological grid domain
• Convert Postscript files
• Vertical profile of meteorology
• Contour meteorological data
• display.exe program
• GIS to Shapefile

Particle Trajectory Methods

• Run a simple trajectory
• Animation of a trajectory overlayed with meteorology
• Trajectory Setup menu options
• plants.txt - list of user sources
• tdump and MESSAGE files
• Trajectory computational error
• Plot multiple trajectories on map
• Estimate meteorological error
• Advanced trajectory menu
• Use of SETUP.CFG file
• Multiple trajectories
• Trajectory matrix
• Define trajectory starting heights
• Model vs actual terrain height
• Trajectory vertical display coordinate
• Plot meteorology along a trajectory
• Trajectory vertical motion method

Pollutant Plume Simulations

• 3D particle vs. top-hat puff
• Concentration from particles & puffs
• Specify turbulence option
• Defining dispersion pollutants
• Concentration grid definition
• Setting number of particles
• High-resolution map backgrounds
• Concentration MESSAGE file
• Multiple dispersion sources
• Emission rate
• Complex emission scenarios
• Emissions matrix
• Defining an emissions file
• Setting number of particles
• Particle display options
• PARDUMP particle dump
• Particle Pointer Select utility
• Convert concentrations to text
• Concentration time-series plot

Special Topics

• Run many trajectories automatically
• Trajectory cluster analysis
• Concenration ensembles (meteorology)
• Concentration ensembles (space)
• Simple chemical conversion
• Multiple pollutant species
• chemrate.txt file
• Modeling dust storms
• Dust emissions
• Particle editor
• Repositioning particles
• TOMS aerosol index
• NOAA AVHRR optical depths
• Defining deposition
• Dry deposition velocity
• Gravitational settling
• Deposition probability conversion
• Source attribution
• Back trajectory analysis
• Spatial offset
• Source attribution
• Source-receptor matrices
• Matrix probability display
• Source attribution functions
• Back concentration calculation
• HYSPLIT to GENERATE format
• GIS to ESRI Shapefiles
• ESRI ArcExplorer
• HYSPLIT export to Google Earth
• Modify output labels
• LABELS.CFG & MAPTEXT.CFG
• Scripting HYSPLIT executions

Miscellaneous Topics

• ECMWF Reanalysis data
• grib2arl utility