HYSPLIT Tutorial Table of Contents

Follow the HYSPLIT tutorial sections in the sequence shown below, working through each example. GUI menu screen images will be shown as needed. However, not all of the GUI options will be exercised with each example. Additional menu options will be introduced as needed. Some menus have a zoom button to show the required data entry values in a larger type. The tutorial is focused toward running HYSPLIT on a Windows PC. Although the operation of the GUI is similar on Linux and Mac platforms, not all of the GUI functions are available on all systems. If you are going through this tutorial from the CD, some of the examples will go faster if the contents of the CD are first copied to your hard drive (c:\Tutorial).

Installing HYSPLIT

1. On a Windows PC
2. On an MAC running OSX 10.6

Testing the installation

1. Graphical User Interface (GUI) operation
2. Test the trajectory calculation
3. Test the air concentration calculation
4. Using CAPTEX data in this tutorial

Gridded Meteorological Data Files

1. Meteorological data for the tutorial
2. Obtaining meteorological data using FTP
3. Converting meteorological data for HYSPLIT
4. User entered meteorological data

Trajectory calculations

1. The basic trajectory calculation
2. The trajectory equation
3. Estimating the depth of the mixed layer
4. Trajectories within the mixed layer
5. Sources of trajectory error
6. Absolute trajectory error
7. Trajectory vertical motion
8. Trajectories and terrain
9. Multiple trajectories in time
10. Multiple trajectories in space

Trajectory statistics

1. Frequency analysis
2. Cluster analysis
3. Clustering equations
4. Source geolocation using trajectories
5. Scripting through batch files
6. Meteorological trajectory ensemble
7. Working directory cleanup

The Basic Air Concentration Simulation

1. Reconfiguring the test calculation for CAPTEX
2. Air concentrations from a single particle trajectory
3. Single particle concentration animation
4. Releasing multiple particles for a single emission
5. Display of multiple particle positions
6. Representing particle distribution growth using Puffs
7. Puff splitting at longer travel times
8. The particle, puff, and air concentration equations
9. Configure the simulation CAPTEX release #2
10. Review of air concentration display options
11. Air concentration utility programs

Air Concentration Parameter Sensitivity

1. Case study base configuration
2. Turbulence parameterizations
3. Stability computation method
4. Mixed layer depth calculation
5. Puff growth rate equations

Air Concentration Uncertainty

1. Meteorological grid point variation ensemble
2. Turbulence ensemble from random variations
3. Physics ensemble by varying model parameters
4. Ensemble from multiple meteorological input data

Pollutant transformations and deposition

1. Linear conversion
2. Dry deposition
3. Wet deposition
4. Radioactive decay and dose
5. Volume or mass mixing ratios

Source attribution methods

1. Estimating emissions from a known source location
2. Backward calculation from a sampling location
3. Using simulations from multiple samplers
4. Source-receptor matrix approach
5. Solving the coefficient matrix

Alternate display options

1. Enhanced labels
2. Google Earth
3. Shapefiles and ArcExplorer
4. Dynamic sampling

Customized concentration simulations

1. Dust storms
2. Fire Smoke
3. Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
4. Volcanic Eruptions
5. Restarting the model from PARDUMP
6. Adjusting predictions using satellite data
7. Quick response interface