PYSTILT#

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PYSTILT is a Python version of STILT, an atmospheric transport model. It tells you where the air in a trace-gas measurement came from. Give PYSTILT the place and time of your measurement and some meteorology, and it computes a footprint. The footprint is a map of the upwind surface areas that influenced the measurement, and by how much.

PYSTILT works for towers, aircraft, mobile platforms, and satellite or ground-based column measurements. The same project can run one simulation on a laptop or tens of thousands on an HPC cluster.

Note

PYSTILT is alpha software. Names and options may still change between releases. The Roadmap shows what is settled.

New to STILT?

What a footprint is, how STILT makes one, and what you need to get started.

What Is STILT?
Your first footprint

Install PYSTILT and go from one measurement to a footprint map in a few steps.

Your First Footprint
User guide

How to describe your measurements, set up meteorology, run on a cluster, and load and plot results.

User Guide
Tutorials

Complete examples. Run a week of tower footprints, turn footprints into modeled concentrations, and scale up on a Slurm cluster.

Tutorials
Coming from STILT-R?

Where each run_stilt.r setting lives in PYSTILT.

Coming From STILT-R
API reference

Every class, function, and configuration option.

API Reference