1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Year 3 Adel Hanna Director, CMAS

2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS l Serve as a bridge between various segments of the air quality modeling community l Foster the growth of the developer and user communities l Serve as a clearinghouse of information l Become a hub for education and training about modeling

3. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Supported Products l Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) l Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) l Meteorology Chemistry Interface Processor (MCIP) l Package for Analysis and Visualization for Environmental (PAVE) Data l Input/Output Application Programming Interface (IOAPI) l Multimedia Integrated Modeling System (MIMS)

4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS Functions l Outreach Developing the user community Promoting value Establish and foster collaborations l Application and Training User Support Training Consultation and model applications

5. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS Functions (Cont.) l Software Development Plans for external review, tracking, and documenting model versions Maintaining model codes and documentation Model inputs and outputs l Research Application driven Model testing, development and evaluation Computational research and development

6. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Outreach l Annual workshop l Web site upgrade and maintenance l CMAS Quarterly news letter l CMAS presentations in national conferences l External Advisory Committee (EAC) l CMAS Awards

7. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Training l At least four training sessions per year – CMAQ – SMOKE – MIMS l This year for the first time training was conducted offsite at users preferred location l Upgrading training material to match new released versions of CMAQ and SMOKE

8. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Software l Unified Archive of all past releases of CMAQ l Users version (CMAQ-MADRID) l Incorporate all versions of CMAQ up to CMAQ- MADRID into a single CVS code archive l Help Desk – Support CMAQ, SMOKE, PAVE, IOAPI, MIMS through the CMAS Bugzilla help desk and maintenance of the M3listserv – Update Bugzilla to latest version and add some custom functionality to support bug-watchers

9. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Research l Efficient radiative transfer calculations for photolysis in CMAQ l Updates on the CMAQ PM calculations including incorporation of Sea Salt aerosols l Land surface modeling l CMAQ review

10. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS over the years l Training (200 trainees 2003/2004) – CMAQ – SMOKE – MIMS – Lectures l Help Desk Tickets (1058) l Software Downloads (5546)

11. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs This workshop l Number of Papers – International Participations l Sessions, Presentations and Posters – Duration – Parallel Sessions – EAC meeting l Journal Publication – Model Evaluation

12. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS 2005 l Outreach – Web conferences l Applications and Training – Advanced CMAQ and SMOKE training – Additional remote training sessions – Online Scientific help tool l Software Development – Improved model distribution functions – Public CVS archive for SMOKE and CMAQ – PAVE on Sourceforge – Users Participation; CMAQ-DDM – Data clearinghouse implementation – Design of the CMAQ GUI l Research – Second CMAQ peer review – Variable Grid Approach

13. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs CMAS Team l Outreach l Software Development l Modeling Research l Applications and Training l Events and meeting l Technical Editing l Ken Galluppi l Uma Shankar and Sarav Arunachalam l Frank Binkowski l Zac Adelman l Kim Hanisak l Jeanne Eichinger

14. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Environmental Programs Acknowledgments l Your Participation and Support l EAC l EPA l University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill