AirWare Reference Manual: Dynamic scenarios

AirWare On-line Reference Manual

Release Level 5.4
Release Date 2008 10

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Last modified on: Monday, 20-Jul-09 14:03 CEST

Dynamic scenarios

Scenarios for the air quality models are named model-specific objects, selectd from a model specific scenario selector/navigator, and generated or modified with a separate scenario generator/editor. The primary attributes of a scenario on the listing of available scenario include:

Scenario name
Short description (first few characters)
Model domain or area of interest
Start date/time
Owner/user of the scenario
Date of last modification

There are two distinct modes of operation:

Selection and modifications of an existing scenario;
Generation of a new scenario.

Modifying and running an existing scenario

Within an existing scenario, the user can change:

Start date/time within the constraints of the meteorological scenario chosen;
The pollutant, depending on the choices offered by the respective model;
Emissions by modifying the sources defined by the domain and the emission values defined by the start date and time;

Creating a new model scenario

Creating a new model cenario involves the choice of:

the model domain
the meteorological scenario

After that, the procedure is the same as with any pre-existing scenario.