Center for Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Adel Hanna Director, CMAS October 6, 2008 7 th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.

Center forCommunity Modeling and

Analysis System (CMAS)

Adel HannaDirector, CMAS

October 6, 20087th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC

Special Welcome to International Peers

Participation and Presentations from 9 Countries

Canada Czech Republic

China Mexico

Brazil Russia

South Korea USA

Germany

CMAS: Seven Years of Success

The CMAS Center was established in 2001 as a mechanism for transferring state-of-the-science air quality modeling to the community

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

Fosters the growth of the developer and user communities

Serves as a clearinghouse of information Is a hub for education and training about

modeling

Modeling System Releases

SMOKE (http://www.smoke-model.org)– version: 2.4 (March, 2008)

air toxics, EDMS (FAA) interface, BEIS3.13

– version 2.5 (October, 2008) BEIS 3.14

CMAQ (http://www.cmaq-model.org)– version: 4.6 (October, 2007)

air toxics, CB-05, aerosol chemistry updates, carbon and sulfate tracking

CMAQ (http://www.cmaq-model.org)– version: 4.7 (October, 2008)

SOA model enhancements, Coarse PM, Chemistry (in-line photolysis), Aqueous Chemistry, Dry Deposition, Emissions, Direct Decoupled Method (DDM)

Modeling System Releases

MCIP (http://www.cmaq-model.org)– version: 3.4 (October, 2008)

UAH satellite processing, Urban Canopy for WRF, 33-category USGS land use (if used in WRF)

Visualization Environment for Rich Data Interpretation (http://www.verdi-tool.org)– (VERDI 1.02 and 1.03)

New Fast Tile Plot

Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool (AMET 1.1) The Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis

Program (BenMAP 3.0)

CMAS Model Research (Collaboration with EPA/NERL & EPA/OAQPS)

Coupled WRF/CMAQ– Aerosol Feedbacks from the CMAQ Model to the Radiation

Model in the WRF Model– High time resolution data exchange

Hemispheric (WRF/CMAQ)– Consistent chemistry and meteorology at all scales

Variable Grid CMAQ– Computationally efficient, avoids nesting

New techniques for assimilating satellite-derived surface temperature in PX LSM within WRF– Satellite-derived surface solar insolation and albedo

WRF-Var 3D/4D variational data assimilation system – Optimum interpolation of observation int first guess

Training New this year BenMAP

and WRF (for air quality) Four training sessions

per year (Chapel Hill) in addition to users’ locations– CMAQ

– SMOKE

– BenMAP

Onsite CMAS training (2008)– Mexico City (SMOKE)

– Jackson State University (SMOKE, CMAQ, WRF)

– EPA-RTP (BenMAP)

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Journal Publications

Special Issue (Atmospheric Environment) (2004 Conference) (Published May 2006)

Special Issue (Journal of Applied Meteorology) (2005 Conference) (Published 2007)

(Environmental Fluid Mechanics) (2007 conference)

Topic: Physics-Chemistry Interactions in the Atmosphere from the Perspective of Air Quality

The CMAS Community

2000 registered users from 90 countries

Users requested about 5,000 model downloads so far in 2008

CMAS listserv includes more than 1,000 members

Family of models and tools: CMAQ, SMOKE, MCIP, I/O API, PAVE, VERDI, BenMAP, AMET and Spatial Allocator

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The World of CMAS

This Conference

135 Papers (Oral and Poster Presentations)

235 Participants

Three Training Sessions (SMOKE, BenMAP and CMAQ)

CMAQ Developers Meeting (Monday, October 6 (This Evening))

EAC meeting

CMAS TeamApplications and Training Zac Adelman, B.H. Baek, Sarav

Arunachalam, Alexis Zubrow, Neil Davis

Software Development and Analysis Tools

Alison Eyth, Qun He, Limei Ran, Alexis Zubrow

Modeling Research Frank Binkowski, Uma Shankar, Aijun Xiu, Sarav Arunachalam

Director/Outreach Adel Hanna

Registration Coordinator Brian Naess

Technical Editing Jeanne Eichinger

Thank You

Your Participation and Support

Session Chairs for Time and Reviews

CMAS External Advisory Committee (EAC)

U.S. EPA (Bill Benjey, Project Officer)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CMAS Conference Preparation Committee: Brian Naess, Myra Burke, Susan Fratazzi, Jeanne Eichinger, Dawn Buday)