AirWare On-line Reference Manual

Release Level	5.3.0 beta
Release Date	2007 06
Revision Level	1.1

AERMOD scheduled runs

AERMOD is used both for interactive scenarios as well as for automatic, daily and hourly scheduled runs.

Scheduled model runs

These are linked from the main AirWare start menu (Hourly Nowcast, optionally also from Daily Forecast), including, for example,

NOX (AERMOD)
SO2 (AERMOD)

for NOx and SO2 scenarios for any and all subdomains covered by the CAMx nested grid model, respectively. Each link leads to a selector for the set of domains configured for these runs. For each scenario (domain, the date of the latest run and the run status are indicated.

The set of nowcast (or forecast) run scenarios are define by

model domain,
substances,
meteorological scenario (station data)
emission scenario.

Please note that these values can only be edited by an ADMIN group user.

The set of scenarios and the timing of the execution are defined in the script,

/var/www/cgi-bin/aermod/runNowcast.sh

which is again restricted to ADMIN group members. This also manages the regular, size dependent removal of error log files, and in turn is triggered by a crontab entry

scheduled Model Execution:
 1 * * * * sh /var/www/cgi-bin/aermod/runNowcast.sh

in this example excuting the script once every hour.