PAVE and VERDI: The Package for Analysis and Visualization () and Visualization Environment for Rich Data Interpretation () are visualization tools specifically designed to visualize photochemical grid model output. They can run on both a Linux and Windows environment, so can be used while the photochemical grid model is running or has recently been completed. Both tools are primarily used for spatial maps where modeled tile plots can be displayed with superimposed observations. VERDI can also generate scatter and time series plots. Although VERDI has replaced PAVE, which is no longer supported, because the modeling community has scripts already set up for PAVE, PAVE is easier to use and VERDI does not have some of the functionality of PAVE, PAVE is still a useful and viable model evaluation tool. Excel: The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software tool is used extensively to generate various model performance displays (e.g., scatter, time series and soccer plots) under Windows. The modeling results and observations must be processed to get them into Excel. But once the data are in Excel, the user has lots of control over the displays. AMET: The Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool (; UNC, 2008) was developed by EPA and consists of MySQL and r code with various scripts for generating the usual model evaluation graphics. It is more difficult to set up than the UCR, PAVE and VERDI tools but can generate useful model evaluation graphics and statistics. AMET will be used extensively for the WAQS 2014pre model performance evaluation. These tools will be used to develop model performance statistics and graphics similar to those used in the 3SAQS 2011 Model Performance Evaluation Final Report (Adelman, Shanker, Yang and Morris, 2014; 2015). 3SAQS Three-State Air Quality Study AMET Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool APCA Anthropogenic Precursor Culpability Assessment AQ Air Quality AQS Air Quality System BC Boundary Condition BEIS Biogenic Emissions Information System BLM Bureau of Land Management CAMD Clean Air Markets Division CAMx Comprehensive Air-quality Model with extensions CARB California Air Resources Board CASTNet Clean Air Status and Trends Network CB05 Carbon Bond mechanism version 5 CB6r2 Carbon Bond mechanism version 6, revision 2 CEM Continuous Emissions Monitor CMAQ Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system CMU Carnegie Mellon University CONUS Continental United States CPC Center for Prediction of Climate
PAVE and VERDI: The Package for Analysis and Visualization () and Visualization Environment for Rich Data Interpretation () are visualization tools specifically designed to visualize photochemical grid model output. They can run on both a Linux and Windows environment, so can be used while the photochemical grid model is running or has recently been completed. Both tools are primarily used for spatial maps where modeled tile plots can be displayed with superimposed observations. VERDI can also generate scatter and time series plots. Although VERDI has replaced PAVE, which is no longer supported, because the modeling community has scripts already set up for PAVE, PAVE is easier to use and VERDI does not have some of the functionality of PAVE, PAVE is still a useful and viable model evaluation tool. Excel: The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software tool is used extensively to generate various model performance displays (e.g., scatter, time series and soccer plots) under Windows. The modeling results and observations must be processed to get them into Excel. But once the data are in Excel, the user has lots of control over the displays. AMET: The Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool (; UNC, 2008) was developed by EPA and consists of MySQL and r code with various scripts for generating the usual model evaluation graphics. It is more difficult to set up than the UCR, PAVE and VERDI tools but can generate useful model evaluation graphics and statistics. AMET will be used extensively for the WAQS 2014pre model performance evaluation. These tools will be used to develop model performance statistics and graphics similar to those used in the 3SAQS 2011 Model Performance Evaluation Final Report (Adelman, Shanker, Yang and Morris, 2014; 2015). 3SAQS Three-State Air Quality Study AMET Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool APCA Anthropogenic Precursor Culpability Assessment AQ Air Quality AQS Air Quality System BC Boundary Condition BEIS Biogenic Emissions Information System BLM Bureau of Land Management CAMD Clean Air Markets Division CAMx Comprehensive Air-quality Model with extensions CARB California Air Resources Board CASTNet Clean Air Status and Trends Network CB05 Carbon Bond mechanism version 5 CB6r2 Carbon Bond mechanism version 6, revision 2 CEM Continuous Emissions Monitor CMAQ Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system CMU Carnegie Mellon University CONUS Continental United States CPC Center for Prediction of Climate
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