Modeling Tips
Posts category: modeling-tips
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Dec 2024
U.S. EPA’s Guideline on Air Quality Models Published
In last month’s newsletter, we discussed that the U.S. EPA Administrator signed the final rule updating Appendix W to 40 CFR Part 51 – the Guideline on Air Quality Models. This final rule revised the scientific formulation in the AERMOD modeling system.
21
Nov 2024
Updates to AERMOD View & AERMET View
As described above, the U.S. EPA has been busy this month! Major updates to the Guideline on Air Quality Models and associated changes to the AERMOD Modeling System mean that Lakes Environmental will be very busy in the coming weeks as we update AERMOD View & AERMET View to incorporate the new models. These changes take on many forms:
24
Oct 2024
AERMOD View - AERMET’s New Upper Air Data Format – IGRA
Late on the evening of September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. A Category 4 storm at the time, the storm caused significant extensive impacts to the southeastern United States with significant impacts in western North Carolina. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) headquartered in Asheville, NC faced power outages and loss of network connectivity for a period of several weeks following the storms dissipation.
