Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC

• Data files readily obtained from NODC and NDBC web sites are read.
Graphical user interface (GUI) updates:
• The CALPRO system for geophysical and meteorological preprocessors and
CALPOST and PRTMET postprocessors was extensively revised and
enhanced.
• A GUI for the BUOY processor was developed and integrated into
CALPRO.
• A GUI option was added to CALPRO for extracting a subset from the
surface meteorological data, precipitation data, and ozone data from the Gulf
of Mexico dataset for a user’s CALMET domain.
• The CALVIEW display system for meteorological fields and
concentration/deposition fields using the SURFER® contouring package was
extensively revised and enhanced.
Standard Gulf of Mexico Meteorology and Ozone Dataset:
• Meteorological, geophysical and ozone data required for
CALMET/CALPUFF simulations within the MMS Gulf of Mexico region
were prepared for year 2003.
• USGS terrain elevation files with 90m resolution and USGS land use data
files with 200m resolution were assembled for the domain.
• Buoy stations in the domain were processed into 13 SEA.DAT files (1
station/file).
• Upper-air stations in the domain were processed into 21 UP.DAT files (1
station/file).
• 230 NWS hourly surface meteorological stations in the domain were
processed into the SURF.DAT file.
• 271 NWS precipitation stations in the domain were processed into the
PRECIP.DAT file.
• 201 ozone data stations in the domain were processed into the OZONE.DAT
file.
• One full year (2003) of gridded prognostic meteorological output fields from
the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) mesoscale weather model were reformatted
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