Modeling Tips
Posts category: modeling-tips
15
Jun 2020
AERMOD View - Ontario: How to Handle Missing Elevations
As we described in a previous Modeling Tip, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) now distributes Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDEM) data in GeoTIFF format via a portal on their website.
15
May 2020
AERMOD View - AERSURFACE 20060 in AERMET View
AERSURFACE is a tool developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) which uses digital land cover data to objectively calculate numeric values of surface characteristics (i.e. albedo, Bowen ratio, and surface roughness) required by AERMET, the meteorological preprocessor for the AERMOD air dispersion model.
15
Apr 2020
Met Data - Importing Hourly Surface Meteorological Data from Excel
Most users are aware of Lakes Environmental Software’s Import from Excel utility which reads hourly meteorological data from an Excel spreadsheet and generates a text-based data file in SAMSON format. The generated file can be used in a variety of air modeling applications.
