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RELATIVE EFFECTS OF OBSERVATIONALLY-NUDGED MODEL METEOROLOGY AND DOWN-SCALED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL METEOROLOGY ON BIOGENIC EMISSIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES
Citation:
BENJEY, W. G. RELATIVE EFFECTS OF OBSERVATIONALLY-NUDGED MODEL METEOROLOGY AND DOWN-SCALED GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL METEOROLOGY ON BIOGENIC EMISSIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES. Presented at 5th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 16 - 18, 2006.
Impact/Purpose:
The objective of this work is to investigate the impact of global climate change on the regional air quality of the United States. Impacts of climate change on meteorological patterns and primary source emissions are investigated as primary elements influencing future air quality.
Description:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) participate in a multi-agency examination of the effects of climate change through the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP, 2003). The EPA Global Change Research Program (GCRP) and NOAA Office of Global Research support the Climate Impacts on Regional Air Quality (CIRAQ) program, a program component focused on the potential effects of climate change on air quality by the year 2050. The first phase of the CIRAQ program is investigating the effect of climate change with emissions held constant at base period (2001 inventory) levels (EPA, 2006), except for meteorologically dependent emissions including biogenic and mobile source emissions. The second phase will incorporate future emission scenarios.