IWDW-WAQS Wiki

This Wiki contains documentation for the Western Air Quality Study (WAQS) and the Intermountain West Data Warehouse (IWDW) Project. Additional Project information can be found on the IWDW website About page.

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WAQS

The WAQS conducts meteorology, emissions, and air quality modeling to facilitate air resource analyses for federal and state agencies, and to provide up-to-date modeling platforms for the air quality research community. Descriptions of WAQS modeling platforms, as well as supplemental information to WAQS technical reports, are provided on the wiki.

Modeling Platforms

• 3SAQS 2008b Modeling Platform
• 3SAQS 2011a Modeling Platform
• WAQS 2011b Modeling Platform

Source Apportionment Modeling

• WAQS Phase II Source Apportionment Modeling

Model Sensitivity Analyses

• Winter Modeling
• Oil & Gas Emissions Modeling
• WAQS Phase II Source Apportionment Modeling

Modeling Instructions

• SMOKE Emissions Modeling Instructions
• CAMx and CMAQ Air Quality Modeling Instructions

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IWDW

The IWDW is a website and dataserver that hosts WAQS modeling plaforms, air quality monitoring data from a variety of observational networks and studies, and online tools that allow users to explore, analyze and download air quality modeling platforms and monitoring data.

Website

• About
• Data
• Resources

Procedures

• Project and Data Request Overview
• Data Request Procedure

Meetings

• IWDW-WAQS Technical Committee Meeting Archive
• IWDW-WAQS Project Stewards
• IWDW Tools Workgroup
• IWDW Operations
• Archive

Development Team

• Team Configuration Notes
• Data Tracker
• Disk Tracker
• Tool development
• Relational Data Model