Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Year 3

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Community Modeling and Analysis System
(CMAS)Year 3

• Adel Hanna
• Director, CMAS

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CMAS

• 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

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Supported Products

• Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ)
• Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE)
• Meteorology Chemistry Interface Processor (MCIP)
• Package for Analysis and Visualization for
  Environmental (PAVE) Data
• Input/Output Application Programming Interface
  (IOAPI)
• Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (MIMS)

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CMAS Functions

• Outreach
• Developing the user community
• Promoting value
• Establish and foster collaborations
• Application and Training
• User Support
• Training
• Consultation and model applications

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CMAS Functions (Cont.)

• Software Development
• Plans for external review, tracking, and
  documenting model versions
• Maintaining model codes and documentation
• Model inputs and outputs
• Research
• Application driven
• Model testing, development and evaluation
• Computational research and development

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Outreach

• Annual workshop
• Web site upgrade and maintenance
• CMAS Quarterly news letter
• CMAS presentations in national conferences
• External Advisory Committee (EAC)
• CMAS Awards

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Training

• At least four training sessions per year
• CMAQ
• SMOKE
• MIMS
• This year for the first time training was
  conducted offsite at users preferred location
• Upgrading training material to match new released
  versions of CMAQ and SMOKE

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Software

• Unified Archive of all past releases of CMAQ
• Users version (CMAQ-MADRID)
• Incorporate all versions of CMAQ up to
  CMAQ-MADRID into a single CVS code archive
• Help Desk
• Support CMAQ, SMOKE, PAVE, IOAPI, MIMS through
  the CMAS Bugzilla help desk and maintenance of
  the M3listserv
• Update Bugzilla to latest version and add some
  custom functionality to support bug-watchers

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Research

• Efficient radiative transfer calculations for
  photolysis in CMAQ
• Updates on the CMAQ PM calculations including
  incorporation of Sea Salt aerosols
• Land surface modeling
• CMAQ review

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CMAS over the years

• Training (200 trainees 2003/2004)
• CMAQ
• SMOKE
• MIMS
• Lectures
• Help Desk Tickets (1058)
• Software Downloads (5546)

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This workshop

• Number of Papers
• International Participations
• Sessions, Presentations and Posters
• Duration
• Parallel Sessions
• EAC meeting
• Journal Publication
• Model Evaluation

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CMAS 2005

• Outreach
• Web conferences
• Applications and Training
• Advanced CMAQ and SMOKE training
• Additional remote training sessions
• Online Scientific help tool
• Software Development
• Improved model distribution functions
• Public CVS archive for SMOKE and CMAQ
• PAVE on Sourceforge
• Users Participation CMAQ-DDM
• Data clearinghouse implementation
• Design of the CMAQ GUI
• Research
• Second CMAQ peer review
• Variable Grid Approach

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CMAS Team

• Outreach
• Software Development
• Modeling Research
• Applications and Training
• Events and meeting
• Technical Editing

• Ken Galluppi
• Uma Shankar and Sarav Arunachalam
• Frank Binkowski
• Zac Adelman
• Kim Hanisak
• Jeanne Eichinger

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Acknowledgments

• Your Participation and Support
• EAC
• EPA
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill