Welcome to flex_extract's user documentation!

flex_extract is an open-source software to retrieve meteorological fields from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Mars archive to serve as input files for the FLEXTRA/FLEXPART Atmospheric Transport Modelling system.

.. raw:: html
    <table style="width:100%;">
      <tr>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:20%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="_static/install_icon.png">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="installation.html">Installation</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="installation.html#ref-requirements">Environment requirements</a></li>
            <li><a href="installation.html#ref-download">Download flex_extract</a></li>
            <li><a href="installation.html#ref-install-fe">Install flex_extract</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:20%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="ecmwf_data.html">ECMWF data</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="ecmwf_data.html">Overview</a></li>
            <li><a href="Ecmwf/access.html">Access Modes</a></li>
            <li><a href="Ecmwf/ec-links.html">Link Collection</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:20%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="_static/prog_icon.png">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="documentation.html">Documentation</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="">Content</a></li>
            <li><a href="">Configuration</a></li>
            <li><a href="">Tutorials</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:20%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="_static/guide_icon.png">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="first_steps.html">First Steps</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="">...</a></li>
            <li><a href="">...</a></li>
            <li><a href="">...</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:20%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="evaluation.html">Evaluation</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="">Code</a></li>
            <li><a href="">Functionality</a></li>
            <li><a href="">Regression</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:20%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="_static/guide_icon.png">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="dev_guide.html">Developer</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="">...</a></li>
            <li><a href="">...</a></li>
            <li><a href="">...</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
      </tr>
      </table>
      <table style="width:100%;">
      <tr>
        <td style="width:15%">
        </td>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:10%;position:relative;">
            <img style="position:absolute;height:90%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="_static/change_icon.png">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="changelog.html">Changelog</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="changelog.html#ref-v71">v7.1</a></li>
            <li><a href="changelog.html#ref-v704">v7.0.4</a></li>
            <li><a href="changelog.html#ref-v703">v7.0.3</a></li>
            <li><a href="changelog.html#ref-v60">v6</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
        <td style="width:30%;height:150px;">
          <div style="width:100%;height:60px;margin-left:10%;position:relative;">
          <img style="position:absolute;height:100%;vertical-align:bottom;" src="_static/help_icon.png">
          </div>
          <h2><a href="support.html">Support</a></h2>
          <ul>
            <li><a href="support.html#ref-ticket-system">Ticket system</a></li>
            <li><a href="support.html#ref-mailing-list">Mailing list</a></li>
            <li><a href="Support/known_bugs_issues.html">Known bugs or issues</a></li>
            <li><a href="Support/faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
          </ul>
        </td>
        <td style="width:10%">
        </td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p></p>

Note

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3
   :caption: Table of Contents:
   installation
   first_steps
   ecmwf_data
   documentation
   evaluation
   dev_guide
   changelog
   support
   Support/faq
   authors