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1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Models-3 Adel Hanna Carolina Environmental Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2 Carolina Environmental Programs Regulatory or Policy User l Need to identify source of a problem, contributing factors, and methods of controlling or alleviating pollutant emissions l Need to understand the relative effectiveness of different controls and potential ramifications of proposed strategies

3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Science User l Seek to understand the physical-chemical system, how pollutants are produced, what processes are most important, and pollutant interact l Non trivial problem especially with processes that are complex and non linear l Evaluation (how well the model is representing the real world)

4 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Models-3 Concepts l One Atmosphere Description of the atmospheric System Multi-scale Multi-pollutant l One Modeling System Flexible and expandable Modular Analysis tools and Data handling l One Community Open Source Multi-user Platform for multiple contributions

5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Models-3 Modeling Components l Three Main Components l Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) l Community Multi-scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) l Meteorology Model (MM5, ETA, RAMS,..)

6 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Models-3; a Vision to the Community Needs l Utilization of HPCC advances towards environmental modeling and decision making l Modular, extensible science implementation l Analysis and visualization Package l Flexible to address more comprehensive atmospheric pollution (PM, Visibility, Toxics) l Multi-scale (Urban, Regional, hemispheric) l Air Quality Forecast l Link to Human Exposure, Ecosystem

7 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Transport and Chemical Evolution of Sulfate at 850 mb April 20, 1998 April 21, 1998 April 22, 1998 Daily Average

8 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Transport and Chemical Evolution of Ozone at 850 mb April 21 April 22 April 23 Daily Average

9 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Six Day Back Trajectories

10 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS; Technology Transfer l A vision of Community cooperation as means to improving our science understanding while sharing experiences in exercising models for regulatory purposes l From research to application to outreach, CMAS center is to advance the community modeling paradigm through the establishment of a centralized resource to serve the members of the environmental modeling community

11 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS l Serve as a bridge between various segments of the 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 l Develop and market the value of CMAS in order to become self-sufficient

12 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS Functions l Outreach Developing the user community Promoting value Establish and foster collaborations Create Self Sufficiency l Application Support User Support Training Consultation and model applications

13 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS Functions (Cont.) l Software Development Plans for External Review, Tracking, and Documenting model versions Maintaining model codes and Documentation Model inputs and outputs l Research Application Driven Model testing, development and evaluation Computational Research and development

14 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Community Contribution l EPA role in supporting Models-3 and its Potential user Community – Help Desk, training facilities (first year) – Science development and CMAQ releases – Model Evaluation – CMAQ review l External Advisory Committee l Members of the community are developing and sharing new modules

15 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS 2003/04 l Outreach News letter Quarterly Annual workshop Participation in Conferences l Research Proposal on leading topics CMAQ Review l Applications Training sessions CMAQ, SMOKE, MIMS Advanced Training Off site training l Software Development Protocol for coding standards

16 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Summary l More than 600 active users representing different sectors of the environmental community l More interactions and communications l International Correspondence (Atmosphere has no boundaries) l CMAQ and SMOKE are among the leading models being used for various modeling applications l Improvements and developments continue


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