Wednesday, 16 January 2002
Real-time simultaneous prediction of air pollution and weather during the Houston 2000 Field experiment
A multiscale air pollution prediction system has been
run semi-operationally during a field experiment in Houston, Texas. This
modeling system is based on a nonhydrostatic meterorological
model (MM5) that was coupled "online" with the RADM2 chemical mechanism.
Biogenic emissions, deposition, tracer transport by convection
and turbulence, photolysis, and transport
by advection are all treated simulataneously with the meteorology ("online").
During the field experiment, this multiscale meteorology/chemistry
model was run in real-time twice a day using four different
horizontal resolutions (60km, 15km 5km, and 1.7km)
on a massively parallel supercomputer.
We will describe the experimental setup and show some preliminary
meteorological and chemical results.
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