Session 8 Air Quality Forecasting

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
211 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 21st Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Cochairs:
Ariel Stein, Earth Resources Technology, Silver Spring, MD and Saravanan Arunachalam, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for the Environment, Chapel Hill, NC

Abstracts in this session can include:

  • Air Quality Forecasting in Urban Areas

This session will be partly supported by the World Meteorological Organization

Papers:
3:00 PM
8.1
Evaluation of FV3 for Use with Air Quality Applications
Jeff McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and J. Huang, L. Pan, P. Shafran, H. C. Huang, J. S. Kain, P. Lee, Y. Tang, D. Tong, I. Stajner, and J. Tirado-Delgado

3:15 PM
8.2
Diagnosing Summertime PM2.5 Biases of the CMAQ Model Driven by the FV3GFS
Benjamin Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. Huang and J. McQueen

3:30 PM
8.3
Understanding the Impact of Meteorology on Ozone in 334 Cities of China
Ping Kang, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China; and X. Zhang and C. Hu

3:45 PM
8.4
Improving air quality predictions in New Delhi during the crop-residue burning season via chemical data assimilation
Rajesh Kumar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Ghude, C. Jena, S. Alessandrini, M. K. Biswas, and R. Nanjundiah

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