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MCIPV 3: USING WRF-EM OUTPUT WITH CMAQ
Citation:
OTTE, T. L. AND J. E. PLEIM. MCIPV 3: USING WRF-EM OUTPUT WITH CMAQ. Presented at 4th Annual CMAS Models-3 User's Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, September 26 - 28, 2005.
Impact/Purpose:
The objectives of this task are to continuously develop and improve EPA's mesoscale (regional through urban scale) air quality simulation models, such as the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, as air quality management and NAAQS implementation tools. CMAQ is a multiscale and multi-pollutant chemistry-transport model (CTM) that includes the necessary critical science process modules for atmospheric transport, deposition, cloud mixing, emissions, gas- and aqueous-phase chemical transformation processes, and aerosol dynamics and chemistry. To achieve the advances in CMAQ, research will be conducted to develop and test appropriate chemical and physical mechanisms, improve the accuracy of emissions and dry deposition algorithms, and to develop and improve state-of-the-science meteorology models and contributing process parameterizations.
Description:
This paper reports on the techncal upgrades that were included in the MCIPv3 to add the WRF processing capability. In addition, a preliminary evaluation of the WRF output for CMAS will be presented.