MPTRAC

Massive-Parallel Trajectory Calculations (MPTRAC) is a Lagrangian particle dispersion model for the analysis of atmospheric transport processes in the free troposphere and stratosphere.

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What MPTRAC can do for you

Features

MPTRAC calculates air parcel trajectories by solving the kinematic equation of motion using given horizontal wind and vertical velocity fields.
Mesoscale diffusion and sub-grid scale wind fluctuations are simulated using the Langevin equation to add stochastic perturbations to the trajectories.
Additional modules are implemented to simulate convection, sedimentation, exponential decay, gas and aqueous phase chemistry, and wet and dry deposition.
Meteo data pre-processing code to calculate boundary layer, convective available potential energy, geopotential heights, potential vorticity, and tropopause data.
Various output methods for particle, ensemble, gridded, sample, and station data. Gnuplot interface for direct visualization.
MPI-OpenMP-OpenACC hybrid parallelization for efficient use from single workstations to HPC and GPU systems.
Distributed open source under the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL.

Getting started

Information for new users and developers is available from the MPTRAC GitHub repository.

Further information

These are the main references for citing the MPTRAC model in scientific publications:

Hoffmann, L., Baumeister, P. F., Cai, Z., Clemens, J., Griessbach, S., Günther, G., Heng, Y., Liu, M., Haghighi Mood, K., Stein, O., Thomas, N., Vogel, B., Wu, X., and Zou, L.: Massive-Parallel Trajectory Calculations version 2.2 (MPTRAC-2.2): Lagrangian transport simulations on graphics processing units (GPUs), Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 2731–2762, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2731-2022, 2022.
Hoffmann, L., T. Rößler, S. Griessbach, Y. Heng, and O. Stein, Lagrangian transport simulations of volcanic sulfur dioxide emissions: Impact of meteorological data products, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 4651-4673, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023749, 2016.

More detailed information for users and developers is provided in the user manual and the doxygen manual.

Contributing

We are interested in sharing MPTRAC for operational and research applications. Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you have any further questions or need support.