Design Of A Framework For The Next Generation Air Quality Modelling System

With the objective of overcoming present impediments to the convenient, effi- cient, and confident use of air quality models for understanding and managing air quality on local to global scales, a subgroup of the Consortium for Advanced Modeling of Regional Air Quality (CAMRAQ) has sponsored the design of a framework for a comprehensive modeling system (CMS). A CMS should give the user the ability, working through a single graphical user interface, to learn interactively how to use the system, configure a model from compatible components appropriate for a particular application; extract the required data from on-line databases; access, validate and format the necessary input data; run the model in a possibly heterogeneous computing environment compatibl