Western Canada and United States (Last active in Summer 2018)
Iberian Peninsula (Last active in Summer 2017)
This is a public presence for the prototyping of rapid deployment of atmospheric models. The long-term aim is to be able to launch - in just a few minutes - one or more custom models for specific regions and scenarios.
Given the unpredictable and dynamic needs and requirements, these are intended to run in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. With this approach, I don't need to worry about maintaining my own high-end computing environment that might stand idle for long periods of time. With AWS I can quickly specify the environment I want, launch simulations for as long as I want, and only pay for what I use during the simulations.
The following forecasts all come from a common provisioned Virtual Machine that has the environment for acquiring needed input data, perform operational FLEXPART simulations for a specified scenario, postprocessing to produce visuals, then staging to an AWS static web environment.