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MODELS-3 (CMAQ). NARSTO NEWS (VOL. 3, NO. 2, SUMMER/FALL 1999)
Citation:
LeDuc, S K. AND J E. Pleim. MODELS-3 (CMAQ). NARSTO NEWS (VOL. 3, NO. 2, SUMMER/FALL 1999). NARSTO News, Pasco, WA, (2), 1999.
Description:
A revised version of the U.S. EPA's Models-3/CMAQ system was released on June 30, 1999. Models-3 consists of a sophisticated computational framework for environmental models allowing for much flexibility in the communications between component parts of the system, in updating or replacing components, and in the graphical?user interface. The revised Models?3 framework (Version 3.0) is operational on SUN workstations (OS: Solaris 5.6, development version), contains Vis5D and PAVE visualization packages, and utilizes the IBM DX Explorer graph ics/analysis software which is now freely available. Testing of the Models-3 framework on a single Windows NT platform is in progress as well as a version which requires both a Silicon Graphics (SGI) platform and a Windows NT platform. The Models-3 framework will be limited to those platforms presently being tested.
The science code which comprises the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model can be used outside the Models-3 framework and users can adapt code to be compiled and executed on their UNIX computing platform. The capabilities of the CMAQ model are described later.