Table of Contents - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC

Section 1: Introduction
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1. OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.1 CALPUFF Version 6 Modeling System............................................................... 1-1
1.2 Historical Background .......................................................................................... 1-2
1.3 Overview of the Modeling System ....................................................................... 1-7
1.4 Major Model Algorithms and Options................................................................. 1-19
1.4.1 CALMET................................................................................................ 1-19
1.4.2 CALPUFF............................................................................................... 1-23
1.5 Summary of Data and Computer Requirements .................................................. 1-28
2. GEOPHYSICAL DATA PROCESSORS.......................................................................... 2-1
2.1 TERREL Terrain Preprocessor............................................................................. 2-3
2.2 Land Use Data Preprocessors (CTGCOMP and CTGPROC) ............................. 2-27
2.2.1 Obtaining the Data.................................................................................. 2-27
2.2.2 CTGCOMP - the CTG land use data compression program .................. 2-29
2.2.3 CTGPROC - the land use preprocessor .................................................. 2-29
2.2.4 Generic Land Use Data set – (non random Land Use categories
mapped to USGS defaults) ..................................................................... 2-30
2.2.5 Generic Land Use Data set – (random Land Use categories not
mapped to USGS defaults) ..................................................................... 2-30
2.3 MAKEGEO ......................................................................................................... 2-51
3. READ62 UPPER AIR PREPROCESSOR ........................................................................ 3-1
4. PXTRACT PRECIPITATION DATA EXTRACT PROGRAM ...................................... 4-1
5. PMERGE PRECIPITATION DATA PREPROCESSOR ................................................ 5-10
6. SMERGE SURFACE DATA METEOROLOGICAL PREPROCESSOR ....................... 6-1
6.1 Generic Hourly Surface Data File......................................................................... 6-3
6.1.1 Generic Multi Time Interval Surface Data File ...................................... 6-18
7. PROGNOSTIC METEOROLOGICAL DATA PROCESSORS ...................................... 7-1
7.1 CALMM5 Preprocessor........................................................................................ 7-1
7.2 CALETA Preprocessor ........................................................................................ 7-26
7.3 CALRUC Preprocessor........................................................................................ 7-42
7.4 CALRAMS Preprocessor .................................................................................... 7-51
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