SOFEA Documentation

Monitoring ambient air to assess environmental exposure and risk for volatile agricultural chemicals requires extensive resources and logistical effort. The cost and technical limitations of monitoring can be mitigated using a validated air dispersion model to simulate concentrations of volatile organic chemicals in ambient air.

The SOil Fumigant Exposure Assessment (SOFEA) modeling system was developed to explore volatile pesticide exposure and bystander risk. SOFEA assembles sources and source strengths, uses weather data from the region of interest, and executes an air dispersion model (AERMOD) to simulate pesticide concentrations at user defined receptors that can be used in exposure and risk assessment.

The current version of SOFEA is 4.1.5-ALPHA. Downloads for Windows 64-bit are available from releases. Customized builds are available upon request.

Please report any issues with SOFEA on the project issue tracker.

SOFEA is open-source software, distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Contributions and feature requests are welcome.