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The Advanced Regional Prediction (ARPS) is a comprehensive regional to stormscale atmospheric modeling/prediction system. It is a complete system that includes a realtime data analysis and assimilation system, a forward prediction model and a post-analysis package.
The PSU/NCAR mesoscale model (known as MM5) is a limited-area, non-hydrostatic, terrain-following sigma-coordinate model designed to simulate or predict mesoscale atmospheric circulation. The model is supported by several pre- and post-processing programs, which are referred to collectively as the MM5 modeling system. The MM5 modeling system software is mostly written in FORTRAN, and has been developed at Pennsylvania State University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a community mesoscale model with contributions from users worldwide.
RAMS (Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) is a modeling system for numerical simulations of atmospheric meteorology and other environmental phenomena on scales from meters to 100's of kilometers.
http://bridge.atmet.org/users/software.php
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. It features multiple dynamical cores, a 3-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation system, and a software architecture allowing for computational parallelism and system extensibility. WRF is suitable for a broad spectrum of applications across scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers.
http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php
The Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system has been designed to approach air quality as a whole by including state-of-the-science capabilities for modeling multiple air quality issues, including tropospheric ozone, fine particles, toxics, acid deposition, and visibility degradation. In this way, the development of CMAQ involves the scientific expertise from each of these areas and combines the capabilities to enable a community modeling practice. CMAQ was also designed to have multi-scale capabilities so that separate models were not needed for urban and regional scale air quality modeling.
SMOKE is primarily an emissions processing system designed to create gridded, speciated, hourly emissions for input into a variety of air quality models such as CMAQ, REMSAD, CAMX and UAM. SMOKE supports area, biogenic, mobile (both onroad and nonroad), and point source emissions processing for criteria, particulate, and toxic pollutants. 
Driven by the air quality modeling community's need for a replacement to PAVE, the U.S. EPA sponsored the development of VERDI. PAVE is a Unix-based software system written in C and Motif. While the EPA is satisfied with the functionality of PAVE and desired to keep those capabilities, they recognize that the PAVE technology is outdated and wanted an updated, more efficient, flexible, and modular visualization software system.
The Comprehensive Air quality Model with extensions (CAMx) is a publicly available open-source computer modeling system for the integrated assessment of gaseous and particulate air pollution. Built on today’s understanding that air quality issues are complex, interrelated, and reach beyond the urban scale, CAMx is designed to
The U.S. EPA has approved the use of CAMx for numerous ozone and PM State Implementation Plans throughout the U.S, and has used this model to evaluate regional mitigation strategies.
CALPUFF is an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modeling system developed by ASG scientists. It is maintained by the model developers and distributed by TRC. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in its Guideline on Air Quality Models as the preferred model for assessing long range transport of pollutants and their impacts on Federal Class I areas and on a case-by-case basis for certain near-field applications involving complex meteorological conditions. The modeling system consists of three main components and a set of preprocessing and postprocessing programs. The main components of the modeling system are CALMET (a diagnostic 3-dimensional meteorological model), CALPUFF (an air quality dispersion model), and CALPOST (a postprocessing package). Each of these programs has a graphical user interface (GUI). In addition to these components, there are numerous other processors that may be used to prepare geophysical (land use and terrain) data in many standard formats, meteorological data (surface, upper air, precipitation, and buoy data), and interfaces to other models such as the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5), the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Eta/NAM and RUC models, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the RAMS model.
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