The following minimum meteorological data requirements be established for

regulatory applications of AERMOD:

1. Data must be laterally and vertically representative. Representativeness should be

judged independently for each variable.

2. Surface characteristics around the meteorological site must be similar to the surface

characteristics within the modeling domain.

3. Surface characteristics around the meteorological site should be used as input for

AERMOD.

4. Adequately representative data for each of the following variables constitutes the

minimum set of meteorological variables that AERMOD requires for a regulatory

application:

i. Wind speed (at least one level between 7 times the surface roughness and 100 meters)

ii. Wind direction

iii. Ambient temperature (between the surface roughness height and 100 meters)

iv. Cloud cover

v. Morning radiosonde observation

vi. Surface roughness

vii.Bowen ratio

viii. Albedo

I fully agree with the previous answer...

To improve the reliability of your output, you can add :

1) a better description of the cloud cover (the 3 potential layers of clouds - low, medium and high)

2) Wind speed and direction within the 3 layers

3) Temperature profiles

D. Gillotay

In addition there are also some commercial data from lakes environmental

it is also possible to use WRF output  see Kesarkar abstract

I prefer tu use CLAPUFF and use WRF output by using CALWRF

http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/workshops/WS2006/abstracts/PSession06/P6_04_Kesarkar.pdf

https://www.weblakes.com/services/met_data.html