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SMOKE-MOVES Integration Tool and the associated documentation are now available from the CMAS center. This tool can be used to develop emission rates based on MOVES-generated lookup tables using the SMOKE model for regional-scale emissions modeling. The release contains all three major parts of the SMOKE-MOVES tool: the meteorological preprocessor, the MOVES processing scripts, and the updated SMOKE modeling system. Monday August 9th to Wednesday August 11th in Chapel Hill, the Community Modeling & Analysis System (CMAS) at the University of North Carolina will provide a free training session for the Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP), a U.S. EPA developed PC-based program that U.S. and international analysts use to estimate the human health impacts and monetized benefits of air quality changes.
The course will answer the question, "How does EPA and other
environmental agencies estimate the human health benefits of air quality regulations?", as well as allow students to:
--Utilize BenMAP's One-Step Analysis to estimate health benefits quickly
--Import air quality data to BenMAP and use the built-in GIS to analyze these data
--Apply health impact functions to estimate the changes in health effects resulting from changes in air quality
--Combine health impact functions from multiple studies to generate improved benefits estimates
--Estimate the monetary value of reducing air-pollution related health effects
--Interpret BenMAP reports
The third day of training brings everything together in a comprehensive case study in which users learn how to customize BenMAP for a local-scale analysis.
Course instructors from the Community Modeling & Analysis System (CMAS) will lead the class. Because we are piloting a new version of this course, we're offering this session free of charge. If you are
interested in the training, please register on this site. Please note that the maximum class size is 10, so please register as soon as possible and no later than Monday, August 2nd. CMAQ version 4.7.1 is now available from the CMAS Center. This is an updated release that includes several improvements and updates to the science algorithms in the model. Details of the mass conservation improvements, updates to the transport algorithms and model timestep determinations, and enhancements to the inline emissions and photolysis modules, among others, are detailed in the release notes. A new version of the meteorology-chemistry interface processor (MCIP) was released by EPA through the CMAS Center on June 9, 2010. Several new features to improve compatibility with WRF are included in this release. For a full list of features and changes visit the MCIP documentation page available through the CMAS Help Desk. The CMAS Center is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2010 CMAS Conference.
Sessions planned for the 9th Annual CMAS Conference:
- Air Quality Science: An Essential Ingredient for Air Pollution Health Studies (Special Session)
- Model Development
- Policy and Decision Support
- Regulatory Modeling and SIP/TIP Applications
- Emissions Inventories, Models, and Processes
- Air Quality and Climate Change
- Model Evaluation and Analysis
- Air Quality Measurements and Observational Studies
- Air Quality Forecasting
Paper titles along with two-paragraph abstracts are due to the CMAS Center by June 18, 2010.
Early bird registration runs through September 13, 2010.
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