Roadmap
FLEXPART was originally developed to simulate the dispersion of dangerous substances from point sources and was validated for such applications with data from continental-scale tracer experiments. It was then used for case studies of intercontinental air pollution transport, also from forest fires. It was also used as a forecast tool for flight planning during field missions and for Lagrangian climatologies of global pollution transport, stratosphere-troposphere exchange and the global water cycle (Stohl., 2006; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005JD006888).
Version 11
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Date released |
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Important Changes |
Main author |
Libs required |
11.0 |
tba |
Source code |
Improved trajectory accuracy, shape defintion of aerosol particles, improved wet deposition, functionality from FLEXPART-CTM model, incorporation of Open Multi-Processing parallelisation. |
Lucie Bakels |
eccodes, netcdf (optional), openmp (optional) |
Version 10
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Date released |
Download |
Important Changes |
Main author |
Libs required |
10.4.1 |
- |
n/a |
some corrections, mostly in makefile. Allows to compile without netcdf installed. |
Petra |
eccodes, netcdf, openmpi (optional) |
* 10.4 |
20 Nov 2019 |
download:66 |
this is the version described in the Fp10 Paper. |
Ignacio/NILU |
grib_api/eccodes, netcdf, openmpi (optional) |
10.3.x_beta |
July 2019, not a release |
part of course tarball |
changes in SPECIES, minor changes |
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eccodes, netcdf (optional) |
10.3beta5 commit 348abf6 |
18 Feb 2019 |
download:63 |
Wet deposition using cloud ice and water, skewed CBL turbulence, MPI version, etc; see Fp10 Paper. and Milestone 10 |
Ignacio, Espen and others (mostly NILU) |
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Version 9
Note that versions 9.1 and earlier are not yet ready for Grib Version 2. Without applying some changes, you can only use Grib1 input data!
Version |
Date released |
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Important Changes |
Main author |
Libs required |
9.3 |
2016-06-02 |
downloads/54 |
implementation of CTBTO project. WARNING: this is not a production-ready version. Some functionality of Fp is not supported |
+Don (Borealscience) and others |
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9.2 |
in preparation |
n/a |
major code review, effiency and bug fixes, see #101 |
+Petra (BOKU/University of Vienna) |
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9.2beta |
2014-11-05 |
n/a changeset:31 |
Grib2 met data supported, #101 netcdf output, unifies several separate additions, general streamlining; see Milestone 9.2 |
Harald (ETHZ), Ignacio (NILU) |
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9.1 |
2014-07-03 |
n/a changeset:27 |
#94 namelist input |
Harald (ETHZ) |
see v8.2 |
9.0.3* |
2018-06-01 |
downloads/60 |
bug fixes: #139 (bad do loop), #49 (erf type) |
+Petra |
see v8.2 |
9.0.2 |
2012-05-10 |
downloads/8 |
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see v8.2 |
9.0.1 |
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downloads/7 |
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see v8.2 |
9.0 |
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downloads/6 |
code in f90 free format |
(NILU) |
see v8.2 |
Version 8
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Date released |
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Important Changes |
Main author |
Libs required |
8.2.3 |
2011-08-04 |
downloads/4 |
bugfix verttransform |
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see v8.2 |
8.2.2 |
2011-05-19 |
downloads/3 |
bugfix domainfill |
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see v8.2 |
8.2.1 |
2011-05-16 |
downloads/2 |
bugfix outgrid_ini, wetdepo |
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see v8.2 |
8.2 |
2010-11-29 |
downloads/5 |
supports GRIB2, some dynamic memory alloc, ... details |
NILU |
jasper>1.900.1 grib_api>1.8 emos>372(opt.) |
8.1 |
2009-07-02 |
downloads/1 |
mostly bugfixes. More space for windfield names. details |
NILU |
jasper>1.900.1 grib_api>1.8 emos>372(opt.) |
8.0 |
2008-09-02 |
n/a |
below/in-cloud wet scav., unified ECMWF/NFS, modified output format ... |
Sabine Eckhardt (NILU) |
jasper, grib_api |
Note: A stable release (recommended) is marked by *.
History
Version |
Year/Month |
Important Changes |
Main author |
Libs required |
7 |
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Not released? |
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6.4 |
2005-11 |
GFS version |
with S. Eckhardt |
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6.1 |
2005-02 |
convection improvements, domain-filling, output nests |
A. Stohl, C. Forster |
emos |
5.1 |
2004-03 |
better bwd simulations and i/o |
with P. Seibert and A. Frank |
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5.0 |
2002-08 |
better bwd simulations and i/o |
with P. Seibert and A. Frank |
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4 |
2001-06 |
convection scheme |
with P. Seibert |
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3 |
1999-07 |
density correction |
with D. Thomson |
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2 |
1997-10 |
deposition added, validated with ETEX |
A. Stohl |
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1 |
1996 |
mean and turbulent transport |
A. Stohl |
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FLEXPART developers
Currently active developers of FLEXPART
University of Vienna, BOKU, CTBTO
- Lucie Bakels, University of Vienna, Austria, now at Stockholm University, Sweden, See contact
- Michael Blaschek, University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Marina Dütsch, University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Vincent Lechner, University of Vienna, Austria
- Andreas Plach, University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Petra Seibert, BOKU, Austria & University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Andreas Stohl, University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Daria Tatsii, University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Anne Tipka, CTBTO & University of Vienna, Austria
NILU
- Massimo Cassiani, University of Trento, Italy & Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
- Sabine Eckhardt, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
- Christine Groot Zwaaftink, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
- Ignacio Pisso, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
- Rona Thompson, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
Geosphere Austria
- Christian Maurer, Geosphere Austria
- Marielle Mulder, Geosphere Austria
Other institutes
- Jerome Brioude, Reunion University, France, See contact
- Stephan Henne, Empa, Switzerland, See contact
- Pirmin Kaufmann, MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
- Don Morton, Boreal Scientific Computing LLC, Alaska, USA
Previously active developers
- Andreas Frank, BOKU, Austria, See contact
- Leo Haimberger, University of Vienna, Austria, See contact
- Henrik Grythe, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
- Espen Sollum, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway, See contact
- Delia Arnold, Geosphere Austria
- Paul Skomorowski, Geosphere Austria
- Gerhard Wotawa, Geosphere Austria
- John F Burkhart, University of Oslo, Norway, See contact
- Adam Dingwell, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Harald Sodemann, University of Bergen, Norway, See contact
- Bert Verreyken, Royal Belgian Institute of Space Aeronomy, Belgium
Version |
Date released |
Download |
Important Changes |
Main author(s) |
5.1 = alife |
4/2017 |
n/a |
various improvements and adaptations |
A. Philipp, P. Seibert |
5* |
12/2011 |
downloads/25 |
Reading of grib2 format as in FLEXPART 8.2.2 (this implies Fortran90 with grib_api as module) |
S. Eckhardt? |
4.0 |
7/2008 |
downloads/24 |
Merging GFS and ECMWF version, implementation of GRIB2 with grib_api library for GFS |
S. Eckhardt |
MH |
2006 |
n/a |
mixing height calculation and ouput - THIS IS A BRANCH |
D. Arnold |
3.3 |
9/2000 |
n/a |
various changes |
? |
3.2b |
3/2000 |
downloads/21 |
Output of humidity data along trajectories; fix important bug in gridcheck_nests.f |
A. Stohl |
3.2d |
6/2000 |
downloads/23 |
Changes in variable names, output format |
P. Seibert |
3.2c |
5/2000 |
downloads/22 |
Bug fix: (avoid crash when the starting time of the first/last trajectory coincides with the first/last wind field) |
A. Stohl |
3.1 |
9/1999 |
downloads/20 |
Introduction of the FLIGHT mode, bug fix in trajinterpol.f |
A. Stohl |
3.0 |
1/1999 |
downloads/19 |
Use of global fields allowed (polar stereographic grids), Nesting allowed, CET option introduced, New method of adding random errors to uncertainty trajectories |
A. Stohl |
2.0 |
7/1998 |
downloads/18 |
Various improvements and bug fixes, many related to isentropic trajectories and to PV |
A. Stohl, P. Seibert, G. Wotawa, P. James |
1.0 |
1996 |
n/a |
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A. Stohl, G. Wotawa, P. Seibert |