Info on FLEXPART products for the webpage

NOTE THAT SECONDARY ORGANIC CARBON HAS A LINEAR CHEMISTRY AND CANNOT BE SIMULATE BY FLEXPART YET!

• Upper left box selects station code that the user wants to view.
• Next two boxes on the right select year and month (2012-present).
• Then, the users select the product that he wants to view (Source Spec, Footprint, DOM OC, ENE OC, IND OC, FLR OC, SHP OC, WST OC, TRA OC, Fire OC, Total OC, Continental Spec, Age Spec).
• Final box on the right selects the projection (regional, global, polar).
• Buttons FIRST, -10, PREV, NEXT, +10, LAST navigate between different samples.
• Buttons VIEW PLOT and NETCDF (for map products) or VIEW DATA (for spectrum products) switch between plot visualization and links for download the data. Map products (Footprint, DOM OC, ENE OC, IND OC, FLR OC, SHP OC, WST OC, TRA OC, Fire OC, Total OC) are in gridded arrays and are given in netCDF format, while spectrum products (Source Spec, Continental Spec, Age Spec) are given in ascii format.

Explanation of products included in the webpage

• Footprint: Footprint emissions sensitivity showing the probability of any release occurring in any grid-cell to reach the receptor (station) for 30 days particle tracking.In newer versions of the product, the average column trajectory of the footprint is plotted on each map as a function of the height of the plume center (gray colorbar on the right). Each colored circle represents each day backward in time from the release. In addition, there is a timeseries plot under the map showing the plume height versus time backward in time (black line) and on the right secondary axes, the percentage of particles in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) in magenta color and the percentage of particles in the stratosphere (STRA) in blue. Each circle represents days backward from the release date and time.
• DOM OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from residential and commercial sector plotted on a map (three projections). DOM includes emissions from combustion in heating and cooking stoves and boilers in households and public and commercial buildings (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• ENE OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from energy production sector plotted on a map (three projections). ENE includes emissions from combustion processes in power plants and generators (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• IND OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from industrial combustion plotted on a map (three projections). IND includes emissions from industrial boilers and industrial production processes (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• FLR OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from gas flaring plotted on a map (three projections). FLR includes emissions from oil and gas facilities (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• SHP OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from shipping activities in in-land waters plotted on a map (three projections) (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• WST OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from waste treatment and disposal sector plotted on a map (three projections). WST resembles emissions from waste incineration and treatment (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• TRA OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from transportation sector plotted on a map (three projections). TRA includes emissions from all land-based transport of goods, animals and persons on road networks and off-road activities (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• Fire OC: Modelled contribution to surface organic carbon (OC) from open biomass burning (excluding agricultural fires) plotted on a map (three projections) (GFEDv4, Giglio et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrg.20042).
• Total OC: The sum of the OC contributions.
• Source Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the contribution of each source (DOM OC, ENE OC, IND OC, FLR OC, SHP OC, WST OC, TRA OC, Fire OC) to surface OC.
• Continent Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the continental contribution (OCE: Ocean, GNL: Greenland, SA: South America, CA: Central America, NA: North America, AFR: Africa, EUR: Europe, RUS: Russia, ASI: Asia excluding Russian part, AUS: Australia) to surface OC.
• Age Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the age contribution of the plume to surface OC. The latter shows how “fresh” or “old” the air arriving at the receptor is.

Info on FLEXPART products for the webpage

• First button from the left says DUST.
• Second selects the year and month the user wants to see.
• With third button the user selects 10 different size bins we simulate for dust, namely 0.04, 0.22, 0.71, 1.304, 2.057, 3.53, 6.1, 8.63, 12.2, 17.32 um.
• Fourth button selects the altitude (defined upon agreement); it applies for Lidar measurements.
• Next button selects different products for each size bin, such as “Footprint" (emission probability), “Total dust” (modelled concentrations), "Continental spec” (monthly timeseries plot for different size bins showing the contribution of dust from each continent), “Age spec” (monthly timeseries plot for different size bins showing how fresh your plume is).
• Final button on the right selects the projection (regional, global, polar).
• Buttons FIRST, -10, PREV, NEXT, +10, LAST navigate between different samples.
• Buttons VIEW PLOT and NETCDF (for map products) or VIEW DATA (for spectrum products) switch between plot visualization and links for download the data. Map products (Footprint, Total dust) are in gridded arrays and are given in netCDF format, while spectrum products (Continental Spec, Age Spec) are given in ascii format.
• Map products can be plotted also with commercial tools (try NASA’s free program PANOPLY if you cannot plot with Python, Matlab, R, etc.), while timeseries plots with tools like MS excel.

Explanation of products included in the webpage

• Footprint: Footprint emissions sensitivity showing the probability of any release occurring in any grid-cell to reach the receptor (station) for 30 days particle tracking. In newer versions of the product, the average column trajectory of the footprint is plotted on each map as a function of the height of the plume center (gray colorbar on the right). Each colored circle represents each day backward in time from the release. In addition, there is a timeseries plot under the map showing the plume height versus time backward in time (black line) and on the right secondary axes, the percentage of particles in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) in magenta color and the percentage of particles in the stratosphere (STRA) in blue. Each circle represents days backward from the release date and time.
• Continent Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the continental contribution (OCE: Ocean, GNL: Greenland, SA: South America, CA: Central America, NA: North America, AFR: Africa, EUR: Europe, RUS: Russia, ASI: Asia excluding Russian part, AUS: Australia) to surface dust.
• Age Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the age contribution of the plume to surface dust. The latter shows how “fresh” or “old” the air arriving at the receptor is.
• Total Dust: Dust emissions were simulated using the FLEXDUST model (Groot Zwaaftink et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10865-2017; Wittmann et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-741-2017; Groot Zwaaftink et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025482). Here, we include modelled contribution to surface dust on a map.

Info on FLEXPART products for the webpage

• First button from the left selects the respective output.
• Second and third buttons are currently deactivated and should be skipped.
• Fourth button selects different products, namely “Footprint" (emission probability), “Sea-spray” (modelled concentrations), “Agriculture” (modelled concentrations), “Min. dust” (modelled concentrations), “Road dust” (modelled concentrations), “Fibers” (modelled concentrations), "Continental spec” (timeseries plot showing the contribution of dust from each continent), “Age spec” (timeseries plot showing how fresh your plume is), “Source Spec” (timeseries plot showing the quantified contribution from each emission sector).
• Final button on the right selects the projection (regional, global, polar).
• Buttons FIRST, -10, PREV, NEXT, +10, LAST navigate between different samples.
• Buttons VIEW PLOT and NETCDF (for map products) or VIEW DATA (for spectrum products) switch between plot visualization and links for download the data. Map products (Footprint, Sea-spray, Agriculture, Min. dust, Road dust, Fibers) are in gridded arrays and are given in netCDF format, while spectrum products (Source Spec, Continental Spec, Age Spec) are given in ascii format.
• Map products can be plotted also with commercial tools (try NASA’s free program PANOPLY if you cannot plot with Python, Matlab, R, etc.), while timeseries plots with tools like MS excel.

Explanation of products included in the webpage

• Footprint: Footprint emissions sensitivity showing the probability of any release occurring in any grid-cell to reach the receptor (station) for 30 days particle tracking. In newer versions of the product, the average column trajectory of the footprint is plotted on each map as a function of the height of the plume center (gray colorbar on the right). Each colored circle represents each day backward in time from the release. In addition, there is a timeseries plot under the map showing the plume height versus time backward in time (black line) and on the right secondary axes, the percentage of particles in the planetary boundary layer (PBL) in magenta color and the percentage of particles in the stratosphere (STRA) in blue. Each circle represents days backward from the release date and time.
• Sea-spray: Modelled contribution to surface microplastic concentrations from oceanic emissions plotted on a map (three projections). Sea-spray emissions include emissions from bubble bursting and wave break on the shore (similar to sea spray aerosol emissions) from Evangeliou et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128585.
• Agriculture: Modelled contribution to surface microplastic concentrations from agricultural activity. Agricultural emissions include sources such as those from nets and other material used in agriculture from Evangeliou et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128585.
• Min. dust: Modelled contribution to surface microplastic concentrations from mineral dust. These emissions are based on the assumption that microplastics deposited in dust reservoirs can be resuspended similar to dust (Evangeliou et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128585).
• Road dust: Modelled contribution to surface microplastic concentrations from road dust. These emissions include sources of road microplastics such as Tyre and Brake Wear (TBWP) and pavement paints (Evangeliou et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128585).
• Fibers: Modelled contribution to surface microfibers concentrations. These emissions include sources of fibers from human population (Evangeliou et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.128585). Though, their contribution to PM10 is rather small due to their larger sizes.
• Continent Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the continental contribution (OCE: Ocean, GNL: Greenland, SA: South America, CA: Central America, NA: North America, AFR: Africa, EUR: Europe, RUS: Russia, ASI: Asia excluding Russian part, AUS: Australia) to surface dust.
• Age Spec: Timeseries plot of modelled concentrations in 3h resolution showing the age contribution of the plume to surface dust. The latter shows how “fresh” or “old” the air arriving at the receptor is.

This product shows the potential source region of a short-lived gas, having a lifetime of 4 days, at different receptor stations. The data is available on a daily base, valid for 24h from 0:00 to 0:00 UTC on the following day. The products are generated daily for the coming day, so the newest plot is considered a forecast of the expected source region at the stations. The meteorological data used for this product is from the Global Forecast System (GFS) provided by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

Info on FLEXPART products for the webpage

• Upper left box selects station code that the user wants to view.
• With the next box the user can select the extend of the map, regional, which zooms in to the location of the station and global is possible to choose from.
• Buttons FIRST, -10, PREV, NEXT, +10, LAST navigate between different days to be viewed. Pressing LAST shows the plot for the following day (i.e. tomorrow). This product is updated on a daily base.

Explanation of products included in the webpage.

• Footprint: Footprint emissions sensitivity showing the probability of any release occurring in any grid-cell to reach the receptor (station) for 30 days particle tracking.

Info on FLEXPART products for the webpage

This product shows the potential source region of a gas tracer, having a lifetime of 20 days, at different receptor stations. The total residence times, sulfate contribution and the residence over different landuse categories can be viewed.

• With the first box the user can select the extend of the map, regional, which zooms in to the location of the station and global is possible to choose from.
• Buttons FIRST, -10, PREV, NEXT, +10, LAST navigate between different days to be viewed. Pressing LAST shows the plot for the following day (i.e. tomorrow). This product is updated on a daily base.

Explanation of products included in the webpage

• Footprint: Footprint emissions sensitivity showing the probability of any release occurring in any grid-cell to reach the receptor (station) for 20 days particle tracking.
• Sulfate: expected modeled sulfate emission contribution based on the ECLIPSE V6b inventory (ECLIPSEv6, Klimont et al., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8681-2017).
• Landuse categories (urban, wetland, water, desert, forest, snow, agriculture): A mask for each of the landuse categories multiplied with FLEXPART footprint (residence time) to get contribution from each category (Friedl et al., https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/968).
• Modelled and observed sulfate concentrations are shown next to the contribution map when sulfate is selected as a product.