Recently, downscaling global atmospheric model outputs (GCTM) for the USEPA Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Initial (IC) and Boundary Conditions (BC) have become practical because of the rapid growth of computational technologies that allow global simulations to be completed within a reasonable time. The traditional method of generating IC/BC by profile data has lost its advocates due t...

This study has conducted a comprehensive model evaluation to help identify major uncertainties of regional air quality model in predicting long-range transport and deposition of acidifying substances in East Asia. Annual predictions of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model are carried out at two horizontal scales: an 81 km domain over East Asia and a 27 km domain over Northeast Asia...

Air pollution in urban areas has important implications for health and environmental management. Consequently, various methodologies have been developed for its assessment. Traditionally, simple approaches such as the box model or the Gaussian plume have been used to assess urban air quality. The use of Eulerian grid models, which provide a more realistic and comprehensive description of the ur...

implemented to study the sensitivity of future air quality trends from the impacts of changing biogenic emissions. A comparison of GEOS-Chem and CMAQ was performed to investigate the effect of downscaling on the prediction of future air quality trends. For ozone, the impacts of global climate change are relatively smaller when compared to the impacts of anticipated future emissions reduction, e...

This paper describes the development and initial applications of the Model and Observation Evaluation Tool (MONET) v1.0. MONET was developed to evaluate the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) for the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) modeling system. MONET is designed to be a modularized Python package for (1) pairing model output to observational data in space an...

Contributions of the emissions from a U.K. regulated fossil-fuel power station to regional air pollution and deposition are estimated using four air quality modeling systems for the year 2003. The modeling systems vary in complexity and emphasis in the way they treat atmospheric and chemical processes, and include the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system in its versions 4.6 a...

Herein, we present the initial application of NOAA-EPA Atmosphere-Chemistry Coupler (NACC) in cloud (“NACC-Cloud”, version 1), which processes NOAA’s operational Global Forecast System 16 (GFSv16) meteorology on-demand and produces model-ready meteorological files needed to drive U.S. EPA’s Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. NACC is adapted from Meteorology-Chemistry Interface Proce...

Formation of aerosol from biogenic hydrocarbons relies heavily on anthropogenic emissions since they control the availability species such as sulfate and nitrate, through them, acidity (pH). To elucidate role that play in regulating Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA), we utilize 2013 Southern Oxidant Study (SOAS) dataset to enhance extensive mechanism isoprene epoxydiol (IEPOX)-mediated SOA format...

18 Land in the southeastern U.S. is expected to change, e.g., given the potential demand 19 to develop forest-to-fuel technologies or, conversely, cropification of current forests to 20 increase food production. Possible future PM2.5 and O3 air quality for two land use/land cover 21 change (LULCC) scenarios, reforestation and cropland conversion, are compared to a 22 reference case scenario for...