= FLEXPART postprocessing tools =

FLEXPART output is usually in a very compact binary format that needs special reading routines to unpack it. In this page you will find the tools developers and users have generated to read the FLEXPART output, process it and plot it. 

'''Python'''

 - `python-matplotlib`  processing and plotting tools [https://bitbucket.org/jfburkhart/pflexible pflexible] developed by J. Burkhart. (see also https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pflexible)
 - `python-matplotlib`  simple and fast command line tool for plotting FLEXPART outputs [https://bitbucket.org/radekhofman/quicklook QuickLook] developed by R. Hofman.

'''Fortran'''

 - `FORTRAN` [http://www.wau.boku.ac.at/2393.html?&L=1 code to convert FLEXPART6.2 output to CTBTO SRM format] (by Petra Seibert)
 - `FORTRAN` [download:17 subroutines to read FLEXPART 8.x/9.x] developed by A. Stohl.
 - `Fortran90` programme to read binary particle dump files for FLEXPART-WRF by P. Seibert (attachment)

'''Other (free)'''

 - `R` tools - please contact Rona Thompson [http://folk.nilu.no/~rthompson/]

'''Other (needs some license such as IDL or matlab)'''

 - `IDL` tools to read FLEXPART - please contact Pasquale Sellitto, LMD-ENS: psellitto - at - lmd.ens.fr

 - `Matlab `tools to read FLEXPART (S. Eckhardt, H. Sodemann, S. Raja)  [http://zardoz.nilu.no/~sabine/matlab4FLEXPART.tar.gz]
 - `Matlab` tools by user sureshraja1, no documentation (see attachments)




Some of the limited-area versions already provide the output in netCDF format. netCDF output for regular FLEXPART is available in the latest versions (ticket:40).