New Articles Added to Knowledgebase

The Lakes Environmental Knowlegebase has gotten bigger! We’ve added new articles for AERMOD View™ and a whole new section for CALPUFF View™. We would like to invite our current users in maintenance to visit the knowledgebase and rate its articles and make suggestions for new content. We want to make this a first-class resource for our users, and appreciate your help. Look for the Login to the knowledgebase on our website.

Lakes Environmental Offers CALPUFF Course the Week of AWMA West Coast Section’s Conference in California

Lakes Environmental will offer a 3-day CALPUFF training course from October 15-17 in Los Angeles. If you are interested in attending the course, please contact us at training@weblakes.com or check our Upcoming Courses section to register.

Immediately after the course, Lakes Environmental will attend the Air & Waste Management Association—West Coast Section annual conference, Integration of Future Energy Demand with California Global Warming Solutions Act. The conference takes place on October 18th & 19th in Glendale, CA. More information about the conference is available on the AWMA—WCS website: https://www.eagle-pacific.com/awma-wcs/

Check the Upcoming Courses section below for additional AERMOD courses!

Lakes Environmental’s Screen View™ Available as Freeware!

Lakes Environmental is pleased to announce that its popular screening level air dispersion software, Screen View, is free to all users. The software can be downloaded from our website, www.weblakes.com. It joins WRPlot View, also available as freeware, in order to demonstrate Lakes Environmental’s commitment to supplying robust and easy-to-use air dispersion modeling software.

Lakes Environmental Closed for the Thanksgiving Day

Lakes Environmental will be closed on Monday, October 8th, 2007 to observe the Canadian holiday. If you have any pressing needs during that time, please email us at support@weblakes.com and we will contact you October 9th, 2007 when we re-open.

We’ve set a number of training dates for 2007, with additional courses to be announced soon! Be sure to register for courses 30 days in advance to receive a 10% discount (where applicable).

AERMOD Courses

CALPUFF Courses

For more information on the above courses, such as registration information, location, and course outlines, please visit our web site: https://www.weblakes.com/courses.html.

The FIXISHD Utility

Some AERMET users may have noticed that the current US EPA AERMET program (dated 06341) will abort during Stage 1 processing when using some ISHD (TD-3505) surface data files.

This problem is due to the format of these particular ISHD files, which lack a certain delimiter that AERMET is expecting. Full details are available at the SCRAM website.

The US EPA has created a utility called FIXISHD, which is a DOS prompt program which will identify and replace all records with this formatting problem in an ISHD data file, inserting the required delimiter.

The FIXISHD utility, and a complete description of the issue, can be downloaded from the EPA SCRAM website: https://www.epa.gov/scrammetobsdata_procaccprogs.htm#aermet

Note: The FIXISHD utility is designed to be an interim solution; future versions of the AERMET model should include a fix for this problem.

Remember: We are currently accepting submissions for the Monthly Modeling Tip which appears in our newsletters.  If you have a modeling tip that may benefit a variety of people, please send it to us at support@weblakes.com. Your name and the name of your organization will appear below the tip providing you with greater exposure.

Global campaign tackling greatest environmental challenge: climate change

September 11, 2007 - Community-based action on climate change involving an estimated 35 million people across the planet in 2007 will culminate in the Clean Up the World Weekend on 14-16 September.

More than 650 non-government organizations, community groups, local councils and other agencies in 115 countries are currently working on projects in 2007 to improve the health of the environment.
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In pure Arctic air, signs of China's economic boom

September 10, 2007 - ZEPPELIN MOUNTAIN, Norway (Reuters) - From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze.

In the apparently pure Arctic air, a research station on a Norwegian island mountain ridge finds tiny chemical traces from factories in Russia, pesticides in Israel or China's coal-fired power plants
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California air board plans new regulations

September 8, 2007- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California Air Resources Board said on Friday it would step up the pace of new regulations to fight global warming in the most populous U.S. state.

The air board also added measures that go beyond the requirements of California's 2006 landmark law to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.
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Energy and Environment Top APEC Priorities

September 6, 2007 - SYDNEY, Australia (GLOBE-Net) - As leaders of the member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gather in Sydney Australia for this year’s summit, opinion-leaders in the Asia Pacific have expressed deep concern about the lack of progress being made in World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations and hope that the APEC leaders will make progress during their meeting on energy and environment issues affecting the region.
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States' Rules

September 1, 2007 - Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Illinois and Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, and Massachusetts are profiled in this month's state regulatory report.
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Natural Gas Flaring – 170 billion cubic meters lost

August 30, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C. (GLOBE-Net) — The first globally consistent survey of gas flaring has been conducted using satellite data, and a series of national and global estimates of gas flaring volumes have been produced covering a twelve-year period spanning 1995 through 2006.
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Here are a few conferences and trade shows coming up in the next few months: