Session 3A Regional Air Quality—Part III: Ozone and Air Quality Modeling

Monday, 7 January 2019: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs:
Leiming Zhang, ECCC, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto and Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State Univ., Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO

Anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere can result in substantial adverse impacts to human health and the environment. Understanding the nature and magnitude of these impacts requires knowledge of pollutant source emissions, the transport and physical/ chemical transformation of those emissions in the atmosphere, and sinks for their eventual removal. This session will focus broadly on these topics for primary and secondary gas and particle phase pollutants. Modeling and observational studies of local to regional scale air quality are invited. Topics of interest include pollutant emissions, secondary pollutant formation, air pollution effects, deposition, and air pollution regulation. Presentations reporting improvements to and evaluation of air quality models are of interest as are studies reporting new and improved measurement techniques, including the use of low-cost sensors.

Papers:
2:00 PM
3A.1
A Framework to Improve Chemical Lateral Boundary Conditions in Support of NOAA’s Air Quality Forecast Capabilities
Zhining Tao, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Tang, H. Bian, D. Tong, B. Baker, P. Lee, J. T. McQueen, and I. Stajner
2:30 PM
3A.3
Improvement of NOAA NAQFC ozone nighttime over-predictions through offline coupling system of FV3GFS/CMAQ
Jianping Huang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, and IMSG, College Park, MD; and J. McQuen, P. Shafran, L. Pan, H. C. Huang, J. Kain, P. Lee, Y. Tang, I. Stajner, and J. Tirado-Delgado

2:45 PM
3A.4
Ozone Transport in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic
Mojtaba Moghani, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and C. L. Archer
3:15 PM
3A.6
Analysis of Regional Meteorology During the Ozone Episodes in the El Paso—Juarez Airshed in the Summer of 2017
Nakul Karle, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and S. Mahmud, R. M. Fitzgerald, R. K. Sakai, W. R. Stockwell, B. B. Demoz, and V. R. Morris
3:30 PM
3A.7
Evaluation of a Lagrangian Air Quality Model against Various Observations and 3D Air Quality Models
Kai Fan, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and B. K. Lamb, J. Avise, J. D. Fast, J. Vaughan, V. Walden, R. A. Zaveri, and Y. Lee
3:45 PM
3A.8
Long-Term Evaluation of the AIRPACT Air Quality Forecast Skill for the Pacific Northwest
Jordan A. Munson, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, B. K. Lamb, and Y. Lee
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