emiprep¶
Emission pre-processor for atmospheric chemistry models¶
emiprep is yet another emission pre-processor for use with atmospheric chemistry models. It is being developed for WRF-Chem, but there is no reason why it shouldn’t in principle also work for other models.
Warning
emiprep is currently in pre-alpha stage. It is currently not usable yet, even though this documentation might read as if it were. For the time being, please refer to the Getting started documentation.
About emiprep¶
Preparing emission data is one of the crucial points in setting up a study involving atmospheric chemistry models. Therefore, many scripts already exist for performing (parts of) this process. However, these tools are often very much tailor-made for a specific emission inventory, and always geared towards a single model. Hence, they are often not very flexible, and it is hard to extend them.
At the same time, there is a common set of operations which each of these scripts has to perform, e.g., re-gridding from emissions to model grid, applying temporal (seasonal, weekly, diurnal) scaling factors, speciation of emission species to model species. Implementing these procedures is a significant source of errors, and the modeling community as a whole would benefit from a common implementation.
emiprep aims to be an expandable and flexible software package for emission preparation. The goal is to have one system which can easily be extended to accommodate new emission inventories, or to modify temporal cycles of emissions.
Also, empirep is fully open-source, its development being organized in a GitLab project. This means every interested person can download and modify the source code, and contributions from to the emiprep source code are simple.
We would very much like emiprep to be a community effort, so we genuinely appreciate any feedback, comments, and criticism. emiprep is written in the Python programming language. Python is fully open-source and has gained large traction in the scientific community during the past years.
Feedback / Bug reports¶
Feedback can be given either directly on the GitLab platform or via e-mail (please be aware that all e-mails to this address will be public on the GitLab platform).
Mailing list¶
There is a mailing list emiprep-discuss on the Groups.io platform to serve as community forum for all discussion regarding how to use emiprep. To subscribe to the mailing list, please send an e-mail to emiprep-discuss+subscribe@groups.io.