12 Mar 2025Online Training Courses Offered by CERC

CERC are pleased to announce they now offer seven online courses:

• ADMS-Urban
• ADMS-Roads
• ADMS 6
• ADMS-Airport
• EMIT
• MAQS
• ADMS-STAR

The latest course to go online being ADMS-STAR.

The CERC online training courses have been extremely popular both in the UK and overseas. Here are a couple of recent comments from attendees:

".....thank you for the smooth registration process and help received prior to the course. We were very impressed with the quality of the slides and worked example material."

"I would like to give some praise in my report to your course which is very thorough and one of the best I have seen so far."

If you would like further information about the training courses offered by CERC, and how to book a place, please visit the training schedule on the CERC website, or email training@cerc.co.uk.

21 Feb 2025New Air Pollution Source Tool (APST) undergoing user trials

CERC is carrying out user trials of its new Air Pollution Source Tool (APST). APST is CERC's new software tool for separating, for each hour, the air pollution concentration measurements from monitor/sensor networks into the component which is emitted from local sources and the component which arises from long-range transport due to more remote sources.

APST is a windows-based desktop application with a user-friendly interface, including integrated mapping, and a comprehensive user guide. APST includes automatic linkage to online UK monitoring datasets including the AURN and AQE networks, along with the option to include user-defined datasets (e.g. sensor data). Outputs include hourly and aggregated concentration data for each monitor/sensor apportioned into background and local components, and attractive graphics.

The user trials run until the end of February. If you are interested in taking part please contact us at software@cerc.co.uk. More details on APST can be found in the presentation given at the 2024 ADMS-Urban and ADMS-Roads User Group Meeting. APST is expected to be released later this year.

31 Jan 2025ADMS-Urban to be used in a NERC-funded West Midlands climate adaptation study

CERC are pleased to be collaborating with a multi-disciplined team on a new Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)-funded project to combat the impact of climate change in the West Midlands. University of Birmingham (UoB) experts are working with the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) on 'WM-Adapt', which will significantly enhance the West Midlands region's capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change in urban areas. CERC's role is to support the UoB team in their application of ADMS-Urban Temperature and Humidity for local climate modelling of the West Midlands.

WM-Adapt brings together UoB scientists from a range of disciplines (including engineering, environmental sciences and applied health sciences) with representatives from local government and the third sector at the Birmingham Voluntary Service Council. Climate adaptation experts Climate Sense are also key members of the team. More information about WM-Adapt can be found in the recent press release.

This work builds on CERC's previous collaborations with the University of Birmingham, for example the successful West Midlands Air Quality Improvement Programme (WM-Air) and the ongoing WM-NZ project, which is working towards providing evidence and tools that link net-zero policies more closely with positive health outcomes. Of relevance to WM-Adapt, Dr Jian Zhong (who has recently moved to the Centre for Advanced Simulation and Modelling at the University of Greenwich), has led research that applies ADMS-Urban to modelling temperatures over Birmingham at high (50 m) resolution. He has also published multiple papers demonstrating the use of ADMS-Urban for baseline and scenario air quality modelling of the West Midlands.

About the image: This shows near-surface air temperature perturbation at 50 m x 50 m resolution over Birmingham, UK July 2019 average, modelled using ADMS-Urban (taken from 'Modelling the urban heat island in Birmingham, UK at the neighbourhood scale', Zhong et al. EGU 2024.

19 Dec 20242024 ADMS User Group Meetings – presentations are available to download

Following this year's ADMS User Group Meetings, which took place in Cambridge on 4-5 December, electronic copies of the presentations are now available to download from the CERC website User Area. Model users with a valid support contract, including all annual licence holders, are entitled to register for password-protected access to the User Area. To register, or to be reminded of your password, click here.

7 Nov 2024Agendas now available for the ADMS User Group Meetings, 4-5 December 2024, Cambridge

There is still time to book your tickets for the 2024 ADMS User Group Meetings, which will be held at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge on 4th and 5th December.

• ADMS 6 User Group Meeting, 4th December: view agenda
• ADMS-Urban and ADMS-Roads, 5th December: view agenda

Tickets are available to order through Eventbrite until 23:30 on Tuesday 19th November. Organisations with a valid software support contract are entitled to one or more tickets free of charge depending on the type of licence held.