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Final Report: Fourth Peer Review of the CMAQ Model
Citation:
CMAQ Model External Peer Review Panel. Final Report: Fourth Peer Review of the CMAQ Model. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
The Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division (AMAD) of the National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) develops operational state-of-the-art air quality models and modeling tools for use in policy and regulatory analyses. This review focused on the work conducted by the group of 21 staff scientists (the CMAQ group) within AMAD. The 2011 Peer Review emphasized an assessment of the meteorological, physical, and chemical process aspects of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling program, as well as applications, refinements, and considerable evaluations of model performance. The review panel focussed its attention on the current community version of CMAQ, version 4.7.1, which was released in January, 2011 as well as the future version, CMAQ 5.0, to be released in October, 2011.
Description:
The CMAQ Model External Peer Review Panel conducted a two and a half day review view on June 27, 28, and 29, 2011. This report summarizes its findings, and follows other reviews conducted in 2004, 2005, and 2006 [Amar et al., 2004; 2005 and 2007].