CALPUFF and Postprocessors
CALPUFF and Postprocessors CALPUFF and Postprocessors
G.1 PRTMET Meteorological Display Program The CALMET meteorological model generates a large, binary meteorological file which includes hourly gridded wind fields at multiple levels and hourly gridded surface meteorological fields such as PGT (Pasquill-Gifford-Turner) stability class, friction velocity, Monin-Obukhov length, mixing height, convective velocity scale, and precipitation rate. For many typical applications, this output file will be several megabytes or more in volume. The PRTMET program is a postprocessor intended to aid in the analysis of the CALMET output data base by allowing the user to display selected portions of the meteorological data. PRTMET has the following capabilities and options. - Option to print or suppress printing of the gridded hourly meteorological fields (wind fields and surface meteorological variables). - User-selected levels of the wind fields printed. - Option to display wind fields as U, V components or as wind speed and wind direction. - User-selected wind speed conversion factor for changing units (default units: m/s). - Option to print plot files of all the meteorological variables (horizontal slices), in a format compatible with SURFER (contour plots and/or vector plots). - Option to print time-series of any number of variables at a single grid point, in a separate file compatible with Excel (column format) - Option to produce plot files of snapshots and/or average fields. - Option to print or suppress printing of the gridded geophysical variables (surface roughness lengths, land use categories, terrain elevations). - Option to print plot files of the gridded geophysical variables. - Option to print or suppress printing of X, Y coordinates of surface stations, upper air stations, and precipitation stations used in the modeling. - Option to print or suppress printing of the CALMET run control variables stored in the header records of the CALMET output file. MAR 2006 -- PostProc G-2
- User-selected portion of horizontal grid printed for all gridded meteorological fields. Options include printing entire grid, subset of grid, or a single data point. - User-selected time period(s) printed. - User-selected printing time interval. - User-selected format for display of gridded meteorological fields (self-scaling exponential format or fixed format). Two input files are read by PRTMET: a user-input control file and the unformatted meteorological data file containing the gridded wind and micrometeorological fields generated by CALMET. The output file PRTMET.LST contains the printed data selected by the user. PRTMET also produces a user defined number of plot files. A time-series output file is created whenever a single grid point is selected for processing. Table G-1 contains a summary of the input files and output files for PRTMET. The format of the PRTMET control input file follows the same rules as those used in the CALMET.INP file (refer to the CALMET section for details). Only data within the delimiter characters (!) are processed. The input data consist of a leading delimiter followed by the variable name, equals sign, input value or values, and a terminating delimiter (e.g., !XX = 12.5!). PRTMET.INP may be created/edited directly using a conventional editor, or it may be created/edited indirectly by means of the PC-based, Windowscompatible Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed for the geophysical preprocessors (CALPRO). A sample input file is presented in Table G-2. A description of each of the inputs is provided in Table G-3. PRTMET extracts and prints the data selected by the user from the CALMET data file. A sample output file is shown in Table G-4. A sample contour plot file and a sample vector plot file are shown in Table G- 5 and Table G-6, respectively. A sample time-series output file is shown in Table G-7. MAR 2006 -- PostProc G-3
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G.1 PRTMET Meteorological Display Program<br />
The CALMET meteorological model generates a large, binary meteorological file which includes hourly<br />
gridded wind fields at multiple levels <strong>and</strong> hourly gridded surface meteorological fields such as PGT<br />
(Pasquill-Gifford-Turner) stability class, friction velocity, Monin-Obukhov length, mixing height,<br />
convective velocity scale, <strong>and</strong> precipitation rate. For many typical applications, this output file will be<br />
several megabytes or more in volume. The PRTMET program is a postprocessor intended to aid in the<br />
analysis of the CALMET output data base by allowing the user to display selected portions of the<br />
meteorological data.<br />
PRTMET has the following capabilities <strong>and</strong> options.<br />
- Option to print or suppress printing of the gridded hourly meteorological fields (wind<br />
fields <strong>and</strong> surface meteorological variables).<br />
- User-selected levels of the wind fields printed.<br />
- Option to display wind fields as U, V components or as wind speed <strong>and</strong> wind direction.<br />
- User-selected wind speed conversion factor for changing units (default units: m/s).<br />
- Option to print plot files of all the meteorological variables (horizontal slices), in a format<br />
compatible with SURFER (contour plots <strong>and</strong>/or vector plots).<br />
- Option to print time-series of any number of variables at a single grid point, in a separate<br />
file compatible with Excel (column format)<br />
- Option to produce plot files of snapshots <strong>and</strong>/or average fields.<br />
- Option to print or suppress printing of the gridded geophysical variables (surface<br />
roughness lengths, l<strong>and</strong> use categories, terrain elevations).<br />
- Option to print plot files of the gridded geophysical variables.<br />
- Option to print or suppress printing of X, Y coordinates of surface stations, upper air<br />
stations, <strong>and</strong> precipitation stations used in the modeling.<br />
- Option to print or suppress printing of the CALMET run control variables stored in the<br />
header records of the CALMET output file.<br />
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