Hello, I am working on using the windblown dust module in CMAQv5.3 to estimate contribution of windblown dust to PM10. According to CMAQv5.3 Users’ Guide: “BELD4: Use BELD4 landuse data for windblown dust calculations. The user needs to specify the E2C_LU file described in Chapter 4. This file typ…

beld4 is not supported yet for the windblown dust — you may try to read the other posts about windblown dust though

Christian, I am wondering if we have fixed the issue of BELD4 application in CMAQ5.3.1. Thanks. Feng

No, CMAQv5.3.1 does not solve this issue since it was released several months before this thread was started. Due to other competing priorities, this issue very likely will not be addressed in the upcoming CMAQv5.3.2 release either and will have to wait for future releases.

Errors in inline windblown dust using BELD4 data with CMAQv5.3

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hogrefe.christian April 19, 2020, 3:03am 3

To add to the response above, please see this related thread.

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Errors in inline windblown dust using BELD4 data with CMAQv5.3

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