help PuffR

[paolo-rossini]

Dear Richard,
I'm trying to use your excellent system PuffR for an odour exposure simulation near to a waste treatment plant in Italy (43.126324, 12.409735).
Following your instructions, that I found on slideshare, I see that your example for 'vancouver' works fine, whereas when I try to set my parameters I'm not able to run the function (I stopped at the calmet_define_geophys function, see https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74598336/puffR_snap1.PNG).
Can you help me, please, and tell me where I'm wrong?
Moreover, I would use if possible my own files for DEM, land cover and meteorological parameters (you can find them on https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74598336/input_data.zip, if you want).
Could you explain me how to correctly set the package functions to do that?
I thank you in advance,
best regards,
Paolo Rossini
Rimini, Italy

[rich-iannone]

Hello Paolo,

Thank you for sending these questions to me and sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The minimal example required quite a bit of external code to get it to run at all. The truth is, it's very difficult to make an automated system for CALPUFF. The difficult parts are generating the geophysical surface file and especially generating the upper air file.

The development of this package has been stalled for quite some time but may resume soon. In the meantime, I would strongly suggest using the SplitR package for dispersion modeling. That package does work quite well and should provide good results especially when using higher-resolution meteorology files.

If that can be an option for your work, I'll gladly provide advice on how to create dispersion models for HYSPLIT.

[paolo-rossini]

Dear Richard, yesterday I tried to follow your tip to switch to SplitR, but I think that I will not use it, 'cause the reference models recognized by Italian authorities are AERMOD and CALPUFF. it's really a pity that the development of PuffR is stalled, 'cause it seems a really useful and necessary package ... Anyway, I thank you very much for your answer and your development work. Ciao, Paolo <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Mail priva di virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#m_2796059500959596265_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> 2017-03-08 4:02 GMT+01:00 Richard Iannone <notifications@github.com>:

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Hello Paolo, Thank you for sending these questions to me and sorry for the delay in getting back to you. The minimal example required quite a bit of external code to get it to run at all. The truth is, it's very difficult to make an automated system for CALPUFF. The difficult parts are generating the geophysical surface file and especially generating the upper air file. The development of this package has been stalled for quite some time but may resume soon. In the meantime, I would strongly suggest using the SplitR package for dispersion modeling. That package does work quite well and should provide good results especially when using higher-resolution meteorology files. If that can be an option for your work, I'll gladly provide advice on how to create dispersion models for HYSPLIT. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AZB5W8bh_PL8cHND6a2Yu3uiWgU0Y6IQks5rjhpXgaJpZM4MVNXx> .

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