Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Community Modeling and Analysis System CMAS Adel Hanna Director, CMAS

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CMAS Centralized organization to fill the gaps through technology transfer and establish the links in communications between community members. l Serve as a bridge between various segments of the air quality modeling community l Foster the growth of the developer and user communities l Serve as a clearinghouse of information l Become a hub for education and training about modeling

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Community and Needs l CMAS In its Fifth Year l Users Requested more over 5,600 model downloads in 2006 l CMAS Listserv includes more than 1000 members l Message Posting Average 10 per week l There are more than 600 unique message threads l CMAQ-SMOKE-MCIP- IO/API-PAVE

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Model Releases l CMAQ – CMAQ version 4.5 (September 2005) – CMAQ version 4.6 (October 2006) l SMOKE – SMOKE 2.3 (October 2006) – Minor updates for BEIS 3.13 (November 2006) – Surrogate tool l Spatial Allocator – New version to create OCEANFILE for Sea Salt emissions l MCIP (version 3.2) (October 2006) l PAVE (version 2.3)

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Support and Analysis Tools l Associated Web Sites – SMOKE web site – CMAQ web site l On-line CMAQ operational guidance document l Help Desk – 900 Users – More than 5000 Downloads l CMAQ, SMOKE, Spatial Allocator, MCIP, PAVE, IO/API l CMAQ Graphical User Interface (GUI) – help you to download, compile, and run the various components of CMAQ – Run on Linux l MIMS Spatial Allocator – Processing of surrogates for emissions – processing that are required by the SMOKE modeling system to create the inputs for biogenic emissions l PAVE – Several updates in PAVE 2.3

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Training l Four training sessions per year (RTP) in addition to Users’ location – CMAQ – SMOKE – MIMS l First International CMAS Training – Bulgaria – Mexico l Training on WRF for Air Quality Modeling l Web-based training modules

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CMAS Modeling Research (Collaboration with EPA-ORD) l 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 l Land surface modeling – Assimilate Satellite derived surface solar insolation into WRF – Develop a soil moisture nudging scheme for the Pleim-Xiu Land-Surface Model

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Multi-scale Developments l Urban and micro-scale – Urban database development – Integration of CMAQ with Dispersion models – MM5-UCP – CFD l Hemispheric CMAQ – Intercontinental transport – Climate/ Pollution Relationship Buildings distributed in 1 km grid.

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Variable Grid Resolution Modeling Ugrid – 36 km Vgrid – 36 to 4 km Surface Ozone

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Community Participation l New Modules and Enhancements – CMAQ-MADRID (AER) – CMAQ-DDM (Georgia Tech) – CMAQ 4.5 – Modified Treatment of Cloud Cover (TVA) l Model Development and Evaluation l Feedbacks, Sharing of Analysis, results and data l Participate in developing the strategy for CMAS l Outreach – Annual Conference – Newsletter (Quarterly, circulation 1200 members) – Specialty Workshops

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Reviews and Publications l 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 l Third CMAQ Review – Focus on the Meteorology of Air Quality – Expected to be completed by Summer of 2007

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Community of CMAS Current and Future l State of the science models and Analysis tools – One Atmosphere – Coordinating Community Approach to Emissions and Air Quality Modeling l Training and Conferences l Outreach and Communication l Building a community Modeling and Information Sharing Culture l Multi-Media Modeling l Risk Assessment, Exposure and Environmental Management

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This Conference l 108 Papers l 205 participants l International Participations l New Sessions this Year – Chemical Data Assimilation – Air Quality Forecasting – Fine Scale and Urban Scale Applications

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Welcome to Our International Peers l International applications – Presentations at CMAS from l China l Korea l Japan l Pakistan l India l Canada l Chile l Taiwan l Hong Kong

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CMAS Team l Applications and Training l Software Development and Analysis Tools l Modeling Research l Director/Outreach l Registration Coordinator l Technical Editing l Zac Adelman, B H Baek, Andy Holland, Sarav Arunachalam l Alison Eyth, Parthee Partheepan, Qun He, Limei Ran l Frank Binkowski, Uma Shankar, Aijun Xiu, Sarav Arunachalam l Adel Hanna l Brian Naess l Jeanne Eichinger

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Acknowledgments l Your Participation and Support l Our distinguished speakers for coming to talk to us during the conference l Session Chairs for time and reviews l EAC l US EPA (Bill Benjey Project Officer) l University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Center for Environmental Modeling for Policy Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CMAS AWARDS 2006 Dr. Alan Hansen EPRI USA Dr. Michael Bane University Of Manchester UK