HYSPLIT Basic Tutorial 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 sections 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. However, most sections have a link to a LINUX script or a Windows batch file that can be used to reproduce the example. The GUI just creates the required input files needed to run HYSPLIT. Although the operation of the GUI is similar on Linux and Mac platforms, not all of the GUI functions are available on all systems. The tutorial has been tested with HYSPLIT revision 854, which can be downloaded along with this tutorial from https://www.ready.noaa.gov/data/web/workshop/AMS2018/.

1. Installing HYSPLIT
   1. Windows PC
   2. Apple MAC OSX
   
   
2. GUIs and Meteorological Data
   1. Graphical user interface operation
   2. Using CAPTEX data
   3. Tutorial meteorological data
   4. Current meteorological data
   
   
3. Trajectory calculations
   1. Trajectory example
   2. Trajectory equations
   3. Computational error
   4. Meteorology uncertainty
   5. Hands-On Exercise - Trajectory Error
   
   
4. Trajectory statistics
   1. Frequency analysis
   2. Cluster analysis
   3. Cluster equations
   4. Hands-On Exercise - Cluster Analysis
   
   
5. Air Concentration Calculations
   1. Air concentration equations
   
   
6. Configuring the CAPTEX simulation
   1. Configure for CAPTEX release #2
   2. Display options
   3. Utility programs
   4. Verification
   
   
7. Air concentration Uncertainty
   1. Multiple meteorological data
   2. Ensemble verification
   3. Hands-On Exercise - Multi-Meteorology Ensemble