Installation Tips from 2018

Maintained by a private company called Exponent

• Upon entering the Exponent website, you should Accept the End User License Agreement, then you will see the CALPUFF Model listing on the left-hand panel. To access the system code and documentation, click on "DOWNLOAD", then click on "Skip Registration" if you do not want to register.
  
• Current (as of Aug 2018) EPA-approved version is 5.8.5 (Dec 2015).  
  However, Exponent has a newer version 7 (created Jun 2015).
  

Model Dynamics, Physics & Parameterizations (via the Exponent website; see above for access)

1. CALPUFF User guide:  See chapter 2 in:  http://www.src.com/calpuff/download/CALPUFF_UsersGuide.pdf  .
2. CALMET User Guide:   http://www.src.com/calpuff/download/CALMET_UsersGuide.pdf
   
3. Technical upgrades:  http://www.src.com/calpuff/download/MMS_Files/MMS2006_Volume1_Technical.pdf  .
4. Dividing streamline paper: Fernando 2014 AMS Flow Visualization
   

Code sources

1.  Downloads from Exponent at  http://www.src.com/calpuff/download/download.htm   .

2. Download to your computer, and unzip the following source code files: 
   
• CALWRF to translate WRF netCDF files into the right format for CALMET (get from version 7)
  
• CALMET to extract the meteorology needed to run CALPUFF (get from version 5)
  
• CALPUFF to do the Lagrangian puff dispersion (get from version 5)
• CALPOST to produce postprocessing graphics and statistics (get from version 6).

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Resources

1. Users Guides for CALMET & CALPUFF from  http://www.src.com/calpuff/download/download.htm .
   
2. User Instructions for CALPUFF version 6.0.   http://www.src.com/calpuff/download/CALPUFF_Version6_UserInstructions.pdf . 
   

1. Model installation guide - version 2, from Tim Chui - 2018.  
   
2. CAMLMET.zip
   
3. CALMET_v5.8.5.zip
   
4. CALPOST_v6.221.zip
   
5. CALPUFF.zip
   
6. CALPUFF_v5.8.5.zip
   
7. CALWRF_v2.0.2a.zip
   
8. Small (207 MB) zipped file of WRF output for 5 hours on our coarse grid (delta_x = 36 km) over Canada, to use as input to CALWRF.  (You can use the free NASA Panoply app to view the contents of these files - - select "view All Files" when you try to open these files in Panoply.  But this viewing step is not required for CAL things.)
   

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