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Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Center forCommunity Modeling and Analysis

System

CMAS

Adel Hanna

Director, CMAS



CMAS

Centralized organization to fill the gaps through technology transfer and establish the links in

communications between community members.

Serve as a bridge between various segments of the air quality modeling community

Foster the growth of the developer and user communities

Serve as a clearinghouse of information Become a hub for education and training about

modeling



Community and Needs

CMAS In its Fifth Year Users Requested more

over 5,600 model downloads in 2006

CMAS Listserv includes more than 1000 members

Message Posting Average 10 per week

There are more than 600 unique message threads

CMAQ-SMOKE-MCIP- IO/API-PAVE



Model Releases

CMAQ – CMAQ version 4.5 (September 2005)

– CMAQ version 4.6 (October 2006)

SMOKE– SMOKE 2.3 (October 2006)

– Minor updates for BEIS 3.13 (November 2006)

– Surrogate tool

Spatial Allocator– New version to create OCEANFILE for Sea Salt emissions

MCIP (version 3.2) (October 2006)

PAVE (version 2.3)



Support and Analysis Tools Associated Web Sites

– SMOKE web site– CMAQ web site

On-line CMAQ operational guidance document Help Desk

– 900 Users

– More than 5000 Downloads CMAQ, SMOKE, Spatial Allocator, MCIP, PAVE, IO/API

CMAQ Graphical User Interface (GUI)– help you to download, compile, and run the various components of CMAQ – Run on Linux

MIMS Spatial Allocator– Processing of surrogates for emissions– processing that are required by the SMOKE modeling system to create the

inputs for biogenic emissions PAVE

– Several updates in PAVE 2.3



Training Four training sessions

per year (RTP) in addition to Users’ location– CMAQ– SMOKE– MIMS

First International CMAS Training– Bulgaria– Mexico

Training on WRF for Air Quality Modeling

Web-based training modules

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CMAS Modeling Research(Collaboration with EPA-ORD)

Updates on the CMAQ – Inline radiative transfer calculations for photolysis in

CMAQ

– Sea Salt Modeling

– Introduction to coarse mode chemistry

– Evaluate three methods for mass transfer between aerosol and gas phase in box model mode

Land surface modeling– Assimilate Satellite derived surface solar insolation into

WRF

– Develop a soil moisture nudging scheme for the Pleim-Xiu Land-Surface Model



Multi-scale Developments Urban and micro-scale

– Urban database development

– Integration of CMAQ with Dispersion models

– MM5-UCP– CFD

Hemispheric CMAQ– Intercontinental transport– Climate/ Pollution

Relationship

Buildings distributed in 1 km grid.



Variable Grid Resolution Modeling

Ugrid – 36 km Vgrid – 36 to 4 kmSurface Ozone



Community Participation

New Modules and Enhancements– CMAQ-MADRID (AER)– CMAQ-DDM (Georgia Tech)– CMAQ 4.5 – Modified Treatment of Cloud Cover (TVA)

Model Development and Evaluation Feedbacks, Sharing of Analysis, results and

data Participate in developing the strategy for CMAS Outreach

– Annual Conference– Newsletter (Quarterly, circulation 1200 members)– Specialty Workshops



Reviews and Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications– Special Issue (Atmospheric Environment) (2004

Conference) (Published May 2006)

– Special Issue (Journal of Applied Meteorology) (2005 Conference) Expected publication 2007)

– 2007 Conference will have another journal special issue

Third CMAQ Review– Focus on the Meteorology of Air Quality

– Expected to be completed by Summer of 2007



The Community of CMASCurrent and Future

State of the science models and Analysis tools

– One Atmosphere– Coordinating Community

Approach to Emissions and Air Quality Modeling

Training and Conferences Outreach and

Communication Building a community

Modeling and Information Sharing Culture

Multi-Media Modeling Risk Assessment, Exposure

and Environmental Management



This Conference

108 Papers 205 participants International Participations New Sessions this Year

– Chemical Data Assimilation

– Air Quality Forecasting

– Fine Scale and Urban Scale Applications



Welcome to Our International Peers

International applications– Presentations at CMAS from

China Korea Japan Pakistan India Canada Chile Taiwan Hong Kong



CMAS Team

Applications and Training

Software Development and Analysis Tools

Modeling Research

Director/Outreach Registration Coordinator Technical Editing

Zac Adelman, B H Baek, Andy Holland, Sarav Arunachalam

Alison Eyth, Parthee Partheepan, Qun He, Limei Ran

Frank Binkowski, Uma Shankar, Aijun Xiu, Sarav Arunachalam

Adel Hanna Brian Naess Jeanne Eichinger



Acknowledgments

Your Participation and Support Our distinguished speakers for coming to talk

to us during the conference Session Chairs for time and reviews EAC US EPA (Bill Benjey Project Officer) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



CMAS AWARDS2006

Dr. Alan HansenEPRIUSA

Dr. Michael BaneUniversity Of Manchester

UK

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