Flexpart WRF Install Technical Notes

Overview

This section addresses some of the underlying details of the Flexpart WRF installation component. It is assumed to be of interest to developers and those installing this particular system.

We start with a discussion of some of the necessary preliminaries, followed with a description of the actual install program, and ending with thoughts on how to use what’s in here to create a new installation program for another Flexpart WRF distribution, whether it be a standard one acquired from flexpart.eu, or an experimental version needed to test out some ideas. In this way, one can install - in a standardized, repeatable way - a large number of production and test Flexpart WRF distributions.

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• Setup of Flexpart WRF installation requirements
  • System environment
  • Summary
• Technical notes on the Flexpart WRF installation program
  • Overview
  • A brief walkthrough of flxwrfinstall.py
    • main()
    • srm_flexpart2ctbt_install()
    • run_flexpart2ctbt_tests()
    • flexwrf_install()
    • run_tests()
    • The flxwrfusersetup.py script
  • Summary
• Technical notes on using a virtual Flexpart WRF environment
  • Overview
  • Creation of a Flexpart WRF run environment for custom simulation
  • Demonstration of the newly-created Flexpart WRF run environment
  • Summary