Session 3 Global to Local Scale Coupled Meteorology and Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling: Part I

Monday, 13 January 2020: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
211 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 21st Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

For the past several decades, air quality models have mostly been limited area gridded models that are run sequentially (one-way) with limited area meteorology models.  Such systems rely on lateral boundary conditions from other sources and they cannot account for feedbacks from atmospheric chemistry to meteorology.  Both of these limitations can be addressed by integrated meteorology-chemistry models on a global mesh with refinements to local scale. There are currently several efforts to couple chemistry with the latest developments in global meteorology models.  This session, which should be a joint session with Atmospheric Chemistry, would highlight the development of the next generation of global muti-scale integrated chemistry-meteorology modeling systems.

Papers:
2:00 PM
3.1
Evaluation of the MPAS-CMAQ global air quality modeling system
Jonathan Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. Wong, R. Gilliam, J. A. Herwehe, O. R. Bullock Jr., G. A. Pouliot, C. Hogrefe, D. Kang, R. Mathur, and L. Ran

2:15 PM
3.2
Automated MPAS Mesh Generation: Herding Cats with the Push of a Button
O. Russell Bullock Jr., EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC

2:45 PM
3.4
Application and Evaluation of Satellite Vegetation and Albedo in the MPAS-CMAQ Global Modeling System
Limei Ran, EPA, Durham, NC; and R. C. Gilliam, J. herwehe, O. R. Bullock Jr., D. Wong, J. E. Pleim, and R. Mathur

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