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Multiple-Year Application & Evaluation of Two-Way Coupled WRF-CMAQ with Aerosol Direct & Indirect Effects over the Continental U.S.
Citation:
Wang, K., Y. Zhang, S. Yu, David-C Wong, AND R. Mathur. Multiple-Year Application & Evaluation of Two-Way Coupled WRF-CMAQ with Aerosol Direct & Indirect Effects over the Continental U.S. 2017 CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 23 - 25, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL) Computational Exposure Division (CED) develops and evaluates data, decision-support tools, and models to be applied to media-specific or receptor-specific problem areas. CED uses modeling-based approaches to characterize exposures, evaluate fate and transport, and support environmental diagnostics/forensics with input from multiple data sources. It also develops media- and receptor-specific models, process models, and decision support tools for use both within and outside of EPA.
Description:
In this study, we present a multiple-year (2008-2010) application and evaluation of the two-way coupled WRFv3.4-CMAQv5.0.2 with both aerosol direct and indirect effects over the continental U.S. (CONUS) driven by chemical initial/boundary conditions derived from an advanced Earth system model (i.e., the Community Earth System Model). These simulations and associated evaluation will serve as the basis for longer-term air quality simulations to support air pollution exposure health assessment studies at the Yale University led Solutions for Energy, Air, Climate and Health (SEARCH), an EPA sponsored ACE Center.
