Welcome to the flex_extract Documentation!

Flex_extract is an open-source software to retrieve meteorological fields from the MARS archive of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to serve as input for the FLEXTRA/FLEXPART atmospheric transport modelling system.

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