85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 4: Air Quality Forecasting - Aerosols and Ozone

Thursday, 13 January 2005: 8:30 AM-5:00 PM
Organizers:  B. K. Lamb, Washington State University and V. Rao Kotamarthi, ANL
Papers:
  8:45 AM
4.2
The WRF-chemistry air quality model: updates, improvements and evaluation
Georg A. Grell, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Peckham, R. Schmitz, S. A. McKeen, and G. J. Frost

  9:00 AM
4.3
Tests of rhe SMOKE emissions processing and modeling system in WRF-Chem
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats Jr.

  9:15 AM
4.4
Tests of an updated aerosol module in WRF-Chem
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats Jr.

  9:30 AM
4.5
The emissions processing system for the ETA/CMAQ air quality forecast system
Georg A. Pouliot, NOAA/ERL/ARL and U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ost/air_quality/index.htm

  9:45 AM
4.6
Eta-CMAQ modeling system's capability to provide PM2.5 and aerosol optical thickness forecast
Pius Lee, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Mathur, J. McQueen, S. Kondragunta, J. Pleim, J. Young, M. Tsidulko, M. Schenk, G. DiMego, T. Otte, G. Pouliot, K. Schere, and P. Davidson

  10:00 AM
4.7
  10:15 AM
4.8
CMAQ Aerosol Number and Mass Evaluation for Pacific Northwest
Robert A. Elleman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Kotchenruther, D. S. Covert, C. F. Mass, and J. Chen

  10:30 AM
4.9
Assessment of Eta-CMAQ forecasts of particulate matter distributions through comparisons with surface network and specialized measurements
Rohit Mathur, Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research Triangle Park, NC; and K. L. Schere, J. Pleim, D. Kang, S. Yu, and P. Lee

  10:45 AM
National Air Quality Forecasting Capability: Initial Operational Capability
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Seaman, J. McQueen, R. Mathur, J. Hayes, and R. A. Wayland

  11:30 AM
An operational regional haze forecasting system
Robert E. Imhoff, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and J. N. McHenry and R. L. Miller

  11:45 AM
A conservative framework for sub-gridscale terrain effects in air quality modeling
Carlie J. Coats Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC

  12:00 PM
An Evaluation of Ozone Forecast Methods for the Eastern United States: Is There Room for Improvement?
Scott A. Jackson, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and A. C. Chan, C. E. Lengyel, R. A. Wayland, J. E. White, and T. S. Dye

  12:15 PM
Application of adaptive unstructured grids to plume dispersion
Ananthakrishna Sarma, Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA; and N. Ahmad, D. Bacon, T. Dunn, and M. Hall

  12:30 PM
Attenuation of solar UV irradiances by different types of cloud conditions: a potential improvement for UV indices forecast
Didier Gillotay, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium; and D. Bolsee and T. Besnard

Poster PDF (255.4 kB)
  12:45 PM
  1:00 PM
Near-realtime simulation of O3 and PM2.5 over the Northeastern United States: results for summer 2004
Christian Hogrefe, New York State Department of Enviormental Conservation, Albany, NY; and G. Sistla, W. Hao, J. Y. Ku, R. S. Gaza, L. Sedefian, K. Schere, A. Gilliland, and R. Mathur

Poster PDF (914.9 kB)
  1:15 PM
Simulation of smart balloon trajectories during the 2004 AIRMAP campaign
Annette Hollingshead, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger and R. Johnson

  1:30 PM
Simulations of fine particular matter (PM2.5) in Houston, Texas
Jiwen Fan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Zhang

  1:45 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  3:00 PM
Lunch Break

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break