CMAQ Release Notes: PYTOOLS
Barron Henderson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Type of update: New Pre-Processing Tool
Release Version/Date: CMAQv5.4
Description: Depending on the chemical mechanism selected, the traditional "Ocean" file maybe required to contain temporal "DMS" and chlorophyll-a (CHLO) concentrations for dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and halogen chemistry, respectively. To create these fields for input, a new Python tool called "DMSCHLO" is released to augment standard CMAQ "Ocean" files with this data.
Significance and Impact: No impact on core model results. The significance of this tool is to provide an easy to use tool in which to augment the standard "Ocean" file for use with CCTM.
References: N/A
Internal PRs: PR#903
