UBC ATSC 595 Atmospheric Dispersion Models

ATSC 595D - Atmospheric Dispersion Models

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HEADLINES • Welcome to this course.

Instructor: Prof. Roland Stull
TA: Tim Chui
Schedule and Location. Fall term 2021. Tue & Thur at 4:00 - 5:30 pm in room 1212 CEME.
Learning Goals: Course objectives and lecture goals.

Intro: Theory & Concepts for Atmospheric Dispersion

Models:

AERMOD
R-LINE (not covered this year)
HYSPLIT
CALPUFF
CMAQ
WRF-CHEM (not covered this year)
GEM-MACH (not covered this year)

Visualization Tools:

Panoply (from NASA) , (see some guidance on the Hysplit Homework page)
Vapor (from NCAR) , with installation instructions and tutorial by Nadya Moisseeva, with a large sample NetCDF file or a smaller .vdc file you can download to view in vapor.

Appendices:

Tips to install gfortran compiler on your Mac (because many of the models are written in Fortran)

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