Links to tools and packages related to the conference:

This page links to information on the Model Validation Kit and the ASTM model evaluation methodology, which has been used at previous conferences and which is still a matter of interest for the conference.

This Model Validation kit is a collection of three experimental data sets accompanied by software for model evaluation. It is a practical tool, meant to serve as a common frame of reference for modellers, but it does have well recognized limitations (see the web site here).

Some additions to the original toolkit were made in January 1995. These additions include model results from a number of models, as well as some utilities. In spring 1997, some further supplementing items to the original kit were released: a data set from an urban experiment in Indianapolis, USA and an enhanced version of the Sigplot software used for 2D plots in conjunction with the kit.

A package with materials concerning the ASTM package on statistical evaluation of dispersion models is available through the anonymous FTP server of the Atmospheric Modeling Division, US EPA (download area of John Irwin). The package includes datasets, software etc. and was updated in August 2003.