Chesapeake Bay Airshed
- Author:
- Emma Andrews
- Date Created:
- February 7, 2008
This map depicts the Airshed that is used for Chesapeake Bay modeling purposes. The Airshed Model (Regional Acid Deposition Model - RADM) tracks nitrogen emissions from all sources in the airshed. The model is three-dimensional; it simulates movement both vertically and horizontally across a region. The Airshed Model covers the eastern United States from Texas and North Dakota eastward to Maine and Florida with 22,000 cells. Each cell measures eighty kilometers square. Stacked up, the cells make fifteen vertical layers reaching about fifteen kilometers high. The airborne nutrient loads are transported by the Airshed Model and linked to the Watershed Model through deposition to land surfaces and to the Estuary Model through deposition to the water surfaces of the tidal Bay.