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CALPUFF View 9.0

Puff Air Dispersion Model

  CALPUFF View Brochure

  Latest Release Notes

  Feature Sheet

Overview

CALPUFF View provides a complete graphical solution for the CALPUFF modeling system: CALPUFF, CALMET, CALPOST, and their related pre- and post-processors. All three modeling systems are supported by the interface:

  • USEPA Approved Version 5.8
  • Version 6
  • Version 7

CALPUFF View includes powerful and independent QA tools, stunning report-ready results, and a wide range of visualization options.

CALPUFF is a sophisticated model and is used in many modeling scenarios including:

  • Toxic pollutant deposition

  • Visibility assessments

  • Complex terrain

  • Secondary pollutant formation

  • Long range and overwater transport

  • Building downwash

  • Costal interaction effects

  • Dry deposition

  • Fumigation conditions

  • Chemical transformation

  • Sub-hourly time steps

Features

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Integrated Graphical User Interface

Fully integrated interface combining easy to use graphical tools (e.g., sources, buildings, and receptors), seamless model run, and automated contouring and posting of results.


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Plume Animation

This exciting feature allows you to play and record plume animations along with your wind field.


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Powerful 3D Visualization

Complete 3D visualization of your entire modeling area. Sources, buildings, wind field, and concentration/deposition contour results are displayed in context with the surrounding terrain.


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Export to Google Earth™

This exciting feature allows you to export your buildings, sources, receptors, and contours into Google Earth giving you a more realistic image of where your pollutants will impact surrounding areas.


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Puff Tracking Animations in Google Earth™

Using the export to Google Earth feature, you can quickly and easily see where your puff will impact. The play feature shows how your puff disperses over time.


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Auto-Download of Terrain/Land Use Data

CALPUFF View allows the user to automatically download high-resolution global terrain data files (DEM, CDED, NED, SRTM, GTOPO) and land use data files (USGS CTG, NLCD92, EOSD, CORINE, GLCC). Easily and quickly process data for anywhere in the world.


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Sloped Roof Tool

This utility allows users to automatically create multiple building tiers based on the defined top and bottom tier to create the appearance of a sloped roof.


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CALPUFF View Easy-to-Use Wizards

CALPUFF View provides an easy-to-use graphical interface. Each section can be completed by following the steps outlined in various wizards so that you don’t miss specifying required information.


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Complete Meteorological Pre-Processors

CALPUFF View seamlessly runs SMERGE, METSCAN, READ62, PXTRACT, and PMERGE for all of your met processing. Surface, Upper Air, and Precipitation files can be downloaded automatically from WebMET for US locations only.


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Parallel CALMET

Increase your processing capability! CALPUFF View can utilize multiple cores when running the CALMET model.


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Support for Latest EPA Approved Models

You can select to use either the USEPA-Approved models or the all-new Version 7 models. The user can switch from one modeling system to another with the click of a button, even in the middle of a project!



Technical Specifications

CALPUFF View is an interface for the CALPUFF modeling system. See below the technical specifications for this model:

Parameter Description
Model Name CALPUFF
Model Type Non-steady state Gaussian Puff model
Range 200-300km from the source
Time Step 1-hour (Version 5.8), Variable down to the second (Version 6 & Version 7)
Terrain Elevated, processed by TERREL
Building Downwash Modeled by BPIP or BPIP-PRIME
Source Types Point, area, volume, line, flare (V7 only), road (V7 only)
Meteorology Hourly surface, upper air and precipitation data and/or prognostic data (e.g. MM5 or WRF)
Wind Field Three dimensional
Release Types Buoyant or neutrally buoyant plumes
Emission Types Constant or time-varying, planned or fugitive
Atmospheric Chemistry MEOPUFF II, RIVAD/ARM3, SOA, Radiological decay, ISORROPIA, and user-specified transformation rates
Regulatory Status Preferred US EPA regulatory model for long-range and visibility applications. Also used for complex wind field scenarios



System Requirments

This product is a Microsoft Windows-based program that can be installed in the following Windows operating systems:

  • 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8 & 8.1
  • Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate Versions)

Minimum requirements:

  • 2.4GHz processor or faster
  • At least 20 GB of available hard disk space
  • At least 2 GB of RAM