Opened 7 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#184 closed Support (fixed)

Particle Positions from Flexpart-Wrf Output

Reported by: mhakimzadeh Owned by: pesei
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: FP other Version: FLEXPART-WRF
Keywords: Cc:

Description

I need to get particle positions after I release the particles in my measurement site in order to have the number of trajectory segment endpoints in cell ijth in T time interval. I need particle positions in order to obtain Residence Time Analysis and subsequently, Concentration Field Analysis.
My question is how can I get the particle positions? Is CONC output parameter (in netCDF format) with s. m3 /kg unit representing the residence time of each grid divided by concentration at the measurement site? If not, what is this parameter representing?
Many Thanks in advance for your kind help.

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comment:1 Changed 7 years ago by pesei

FLEXPART calculates concentration itself. You don't need to residence times or trajectory output for that.

As a further background to your questions, you can study the Seibert and Frank (2004) paper (see http://homepage.univie.ac.at/petra.seibert/fp.html).

comment:2 Changed 7 years ago by pesei

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comment:3 Changed 7 years ago by pesei

Are you satisified with the answer? Can I close the ticket? If I don't hear from you, I'll assume yes.

comment:4 Changed 7 years ago by mhakimzadeh

Many thanks for your help.
As I have understood, the "CONC" output of flexpart-wrf for each grid in each time interval gives us the value of concentration (which should be in unit of kg/ (m 3.s) ) at release point if there is an emission equal to 1 kg/s in that grid.
However, my problem is that why the "CONC" values of output are in units of m
3.s/kg?

Thanks,

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comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by mhakimzadeh

Dear all,

I still have this question and my problem is still unsolved. Would you please help me with this question?

Thanks,
Maryam

comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by adingwell

The m3*s/kg unit corresponds to a backward run (see e.g. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-2461-2005 ) with ind_source = 1 and ind_receptor = 2.

For a forward run, the CONC variable will contain the concentration field and a have a unit of ng/m3.

The CONC variable name also is used for the source-receptor relationship in backward runs. This was a quick solution for getting backward support into flexpart-wrf's netcdf output. (The backward format for netcdf-output has -- as far as I know -- has not been tested thoroughly...)

As for particle positions, if you really need it, I think the easiest way is to read it from the particle_dump (you generate these by setting IPOUT to 1 or 2). Note however, that these will not be on netCDF format(!)

comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by pesei

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