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AERMOD View Features

AERMOD VIEW

Key Features

AERMOD View is built with features crafted by expert meteorologists and engineers who work hands-on with air dispersion models, ensuring it meets the real-world needs of today’s modelers for successful results.

Integrated Graphical User Interface

A fully integrated GIS-based interface with powerful, intuitive tools that simplify and enhance your environmental modeling. With easy-to-use graphical tools, you can precisely draw and define sources, buildings, and receptors, ensuring accurate mapping of your study area. It supports seamless model run execution, allowing for efficient data processing and automatically generates and posts detailed contours, providing clear and immediate insights into pollutant distribution.

Lakes Tile Maps

Enhance your projects by automatically downloading and importing high-resolution satellite and street map imagery directly into your modeling projects. This feature simplifies the graphical input of model objects, such as sources, buildings, and receptors, by providing a highly detailed and accurate visual backdrop. The imported imagery serves as an excellent spatial reference point, allowing you to precisely position and define model elements within their real-world context.

3D Visualization

Our 3D visualization feature allows you to view emissions sources, buildings, concentration levels, and deposition contour results, all seamlessly integrated within the context of your surrounding terrain. 3D visualization ensures that every aspect of your model is accurately represented, offering a realistic depiction of how pollutants interact with the physical landscape. By seeing how your sources, buildings, and concentration or deposition contours are distributed across the terrain, you gain valuable insights into potential environmental impacts, making it easier to communicate findings and make informed decisions.

Export to Google Earth

This powerful feature enables you to export your buildings, emission sources, receptors, and pollutant contours directly into Google Earth. By doing so, you can visualize your data in a more immersive and realistic manner, providing a better understanding of how pollutants might disperse and affect the surrounding areas. This enhanced visualization tool not only aids in better assessing environmental impacts but also supports more informed decision-making by giving you a clearer picture of potential pollutant distribution across various geographic landscapes.

Terrain Processors with Auto Downloads

This feature offers advanced terrain processing capabilities, supporting various terrain data formats such as NED, SRTM, and USGS DEM, ensuring flexibility and accuracy in your environmental modeling. It includes an automated download feature for easy retrieval of terrain data from WebGIS and SRTM1 terrain data at 30 m resolution. This streamlines your workflow, minimizes manual effort, and provides valuable insights to terrain-related impacts.

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Additional Features

AERMOD View offers more than just an intuitive interface. Every copy comes fully equipped with all the tools you need to complete your project—no need for expensive add-ons.

New Project Wizard

Quickly and easily set up a new project in AERMOD View by specifying a reference point in Latitude/Longitude, UTM, or any other local coordinate system.

Multi-Chem Utility

Boost your productivity by specifying emissions from several pollutants emitted by the same source. No need to setup different projects for each pollutant!

ISC Models Included

Lakes Environmental also seamlessly incorporates the Industrial Source Complex (ISC) air dispersion models ISCST3 and ISC-PRIME into AERMOD View.

AERMOD Parallel

AERMOD MPI, our parallel version of AERMOD, will cut down on model run times, while still giving the high quality results you expect from AERMOD View.

Met Pre-Processors

Several tools are available for easy processing of meteorological data for the AERMOD & ISC models, including AERMET, AERSURFACE, AERMINUTE, & PCRAMMET.

Report Templates

Take advantage of professional ready-to-use report templates. You can include your company logo, project number, and other project specific information.
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Modeling Tips

Unlock the full potential of your environmental software with expert guidance. These tips will help you streamline processes, improve accuracy, and maximize efficiency in every project.

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