EPA OAQPS Education and Outreach website:
http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/eog/
includes links to the EPA Air Pollution Training Institute, which
provides online and video taped courses related to EPA regulations and air dispersion modeling.
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WEBMET: http://www.webmet.com/
contains free meteorological data for ISCST3, AERMOD and CALPUFF modeling systems.
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WEBGIS: http://www.webgis.com/
contains free digital terrain data, digital land use data, and digital
line data for use with air dispersion models.
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Lakes Environmental Software: http://www.weblakes.com
contains online (html) versions of AERMOD and ISCST3 technical documents, schedule of training courses,
and graphical user interfaces for regulatory models.
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SHODOR: http://www.shodor.org/os411/
contains a series of courses on Computational Atmospheric Sciences
that were developed for the U.S. EPA. This covers the basis of modern air quality models, including AERMOD.
See especially Course OS411C, Module 6.
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National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Online Store: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
To order meteorological data on CD-ROM, such as SAMSON or
HUSWO surface data CDROMS or Radiosonde Data of North America upper air CDROMS, click on
"CD-ROM Products" (under "Data & Products").
To download more recent surface meteorological data, click on "Subscriptions" (under "Purchase")
then "Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data." Be sure to select "ASCII" data to download.
To download more recent U.S. upper air data not yet available on CDROM, use the Radiosonde Database Access
at http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/. These data are free.
There is a nominal fee for most other data from NCDC.
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