Adel Hanna Director, CMAS The Community Modeling and Analysis System CMAS 14 Years Serving the Community 14 th Annual CMAS Conference, Octobera 2015.

Adel Hanna

Director, CMAS

The Community Modeling and Analysis System

CMAS 14 Years Serving the Community

14th Annual CMAS Conference, Octobera 2015

• User support• 15 major modeling and Analysis tools available to the

community with 24/7 support• Data exchange

• CMAS is a member of the Federation of Earth Sciences Information Partners (ESIP)

• Data search engines• Training• Outreach

• Conferences, Workshops, Newsletter, Webinars• Model Research and Development

• 5th CMAQ Peer Review• Publications (A&WMA October issue)

CMAS Center at UNC

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

User Support- 13400 unique product download

over the past year

- 24/7 user support

Released (this year)- VERDI 1.5.0- IO/API 3.2- C-LINE 1.0- SMOKE 3.6.5- CMAQ 5.1 (Beta)- SMOKE 3.7- Spatial Allocator 4.2- FEST-C 1.2- R-LINE- C-Tools- CMAQ 5.1

Update Release: FEST-C v1.2FEST-C contains:

EPIC (Environmental Policy Integrated Climate)• agricultural model: plant growth, fertilization, production,

hydrology…

Java-based FEST-C interface• Guide users to model NH3 from crop lands for CMAQ –NH3 bi-

directional model

Updates in FEST-C 1.2: https://www.cmascenter.org/fest-c/

– N deposition input options (default, simulation year CMAQ, 2 CAMQ 5-year averages before/after 2006)

– Additional options to EPIC run interface (CO2 level and tile drainage)

– Utilities (BELD4 data to CMAQ bi-directional input, EPIC output summary)

– Other updates (from web site)

Updates to Spatial Allocator v 4.2Updates to SA v4.2: https://www.cmascenter.org/sa-tools/

Raster Tools Modified the FEST-C extraction tools

Vector Tools Fixed an error in the BELD3 tool Fixed an error in surrogate computation related to holes

Surrogate Tools Fixed bugs in the surrogate normalization tool Updated the QA and surrogate merging tools

R-LINE V2.0https://www.cmascenter.org/r-line/

• Research grade line source dispersion model for near-roadway assessments• Snyder et al, AE 2013

New Features:• Barrier algorithm (Heist et al, ISES 2015)• Updated analytical solution• NO to NO2 Chemistry treatment (Arunachalam et al, ISES 2015)• Ability to read hourly emissions for each source• Various code optimization and improvements• Pre-processor for MOVES lookup tables

• Support for MOVES-2010b and MOVES-2014 based emissions factors

• Ability to read TAFs or hourly traffic measurements of speed and volume

R-LINE V2.0 to be released by end of October 2015

C-TOOLShttps://www.cmascenter.org/c-tools/

• Web-based Modeling and visualization system that access inputs, performs atmospheric dispersion calculations, and visualizes results

• Provides options to manipulate input variables, and performs basic data analysis to present model results in an interpretable manner

• Uses reduced-form modeling approach and publicly available emis, met data• Not for regulatory applications

• User not required to provide input data, but can do so if desired

• Can add/move sources• C-LINE for traffic-related emissions• C-PORT for port-related emissions

See Arunachalam et al, Tue 11:20 AM

C-TOOLS V2.0 Beta to be released after CMAS 2015 Conference

• Training Sessions Onsite and Offsite• Two training sessions on site at UNC• First SMOKE-on-Line training • First CMAQ-on-line coming soon this year• Hebei Department of the Environment (December 2014)• University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (February, 2015)• Hong Kong University for Science and Technology (July 2015)• CASAP-2015 (Bucaramanga, Columbia – August 2015)

• Visiting Scientists Program• Conferences and Workshops

• II CMAS South America Conference (August 2015)• New Webinar series

• Publications• Peer Reviewed Journal Articles; New special issue JAWMA (October 2015 based on CMAS 2014

conference presentations)• Newsletter

Education, Outreach and Training

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CMAS Training Sessions

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Workshops • Urban Database Planning Workshop (May, 2006)• Panel review of CMAQ model process upgrades and model

applications and evaluations (December, 2006)• International conference on Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms

(December, 2008)• Workshop for atmospheric modeling planning ( July, 2008)• CMAQ Adjoint workshop (November, 2010)• Meteorology-Hydrology linkage workshop ( (January, 2011)• Panel review of the CMAQ model process applications, and

evaluations (June, 2011)• Workshop on Integrated meteorology and chemistry modeling

(October, 2012)• Workshop on Providing Regional Climate Change Projections for

the Southeastern US (April, 2013)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CMAS Developer/User’s Forum

- Open meeting to discuss emerging issues in the model development and applications communities that is held during the annual conference

- Panel Discussion- Specific theme for each meeting - Themes over the past couple of years

- Big Data- Developing a vision for the next generation of air modeling

tools- Interpreting Model Results: Getting to the Right Answers for the

Right Reasons (This conference, Tue 4:10 PM)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CMAS Team at UNC

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Applications and Training Zac Adelman, B.H. Baek, Sarav Arunachalam, Uma Shankar, Alex Valencia, Liz Adams

Software Development Sarav Arunachalam, Carlie Coats, Limei Ran, Alex Valencia, Mohamed Omary, Michelle Snyder, Jo Ellen Brandmyer

Modeling Research Uma Shankar, Frank Binkowski, Aijun Xiu, Jared Bowden

Technical Editing Margaret Ledyard-Marks

Communications Brian Naess

Director Adel Hanna

Thank YouCMAS Community, EAC members, and

Session Chairs

Dr. Dean for opening this conference

Professor Shindell and Dr. McKenzie

US-EPA

UNC-Chapel Hill

CMAS-EPA Project Manager (Dr. Bill Benjey)