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Users Manual AERCOARE Version 1.0.

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This document is to be used with the AERCARE/AERMOD Model System for off shore sources

Description:

The work completed under this work assignment is a continuation of an evaluation report prepared by ENVIRON entitled “Evaluation of the COARE–AERMOD Alternative Modeling Approach for Simulation of Shell Exploratory Drilling Sources in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas” dated December 2010. The Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) air-sea flux procedure was coded into a meteorological data preprocessor program called AERCOARE. AERCOARE can read overwater measured hourly meteorological data or predicted hourly meteorological data from the Mesoscale Model Interface (MMIF) program. The output from AERCOARE is used by the AERMOD dispersion program in a marine environment. This document is a user’s guide on how to run the AERCOARE preprocessor program. The work was funded under a subcontract from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Prime award EPD07102, Work Assignment 5-17. The EPA Region 10 (R10) Office of Environmental Assessment (OEA) Work Assignment Manager was Ms. Jennifer Crawford and the R10 Technical Lead was Mr. Herman Wong.

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