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Welcome to flex_extract's user documentation!
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flex_extract is a software to retrieve meteorological fields from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Mars archive to server as input files for the FLEXTRA/FLEXPART Atmospheric Transport Modelling system. 


.. The scripts can be 1) executed locally using the ECMWF WebMARS interface, or 2) on the ECMWF member
.. state gateway server or HPC facility using the ecaccess software package. As another option the scripts can 3)
.. also be triggered using ecflow scheduling software used by ECMWF for data dissemination.

All required second party software and libraries used within flex_extract is open source and free of charge. 


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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`