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AQMEII Phase 2: Overview and WRF/CMAQ Application over North America
Citation:
Hogrefe, C., S. Galmarin, S. Roselle, AND R. Mathur. AQMEII Phase 2: Overview and WRF/CMAQ Application over North America. Chapter 76, Air Pollution Modeling & Its Application XXIII. Springer, New York, NY, , 463-466, (2014).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory’s Atmospheric Modeling Division (AMAD) conducts research in support of EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment. AMAD’s research program is engaged in developing and evaluating predictive atmospheric models on all spatial and temporal scales for forecasting the Nation’s air quality and for assessing changes in air quality and air pollutant exposures, as affected by changes in ecosystem management and regulatory decisions. AMAD is responsible for providing a sound scientific and technical basis for regulatory policies based on air quality models to improve ambient air quality. The models developed by AMAD are being used by EPA, NOAA, and the air pollution community in understanding and forecasting not only the magnitude of the air pollution problem, but also in developing emission control policies and regulations for air quality improvements.
Description:
In this study, we provide an overview of the second phase of the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII). Activities in this phase are focused on the application and evaluation of coupled meteorologychemistry models. Participating modeling systems are being applied for annual simulations over both North America and Europe using common emissions and boundary conditions. We present an overview of these common input datasets. In addition, we discuss some of the planned analysis approaches using WRF-CMAQ simulations performed over North America for both 2006 and 2010.
