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2003 Meeting - Meteorological Modeling Applications for Chemical Transport Models
4th Annual Ad-Hoc Meteorological Modelers Meeting
Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO)
2250 East Devon Avenue, Suite 250, Des Plaines, IL 60018
July 29-30, 2003
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Agenda
Day 1 – July 29
10:00 Welcome and Introductions (Attendees)
10:15 Future direction of this group: New Chairperson selection
10:30 Annual 2001 U.S. & Other Western U.S. MM5 Applications (D. McNalley, Alpine GeoPhysics)
11:30 Annual 2002 MM5 Application (M. Johnson, Iowa)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 High resolution MM5 modeling for Kansas City (B. Anderson, US EPA R7)
01:15 MM5 Application for Texas (C. Emery, ENVIRON)
02:00 MM5/RAMS Application for San Francisco Bay Area/Texas (C. Tremback, ATmet)
02:45 VISTAS MM5 Modeling Background (M. Abraczinskas, North Carolina)
03:00 VISTAS MM5 Modeling (D. Olerud, BARON)
04:00 Using Canadian MC2 to support CMAQ/SMOKE (Xin Qiu, RWDI Inc.)
05:00 Adjourn
Day 2 – July 30
08:30 PX model performance at 36 and 12 km grid resolution and with and without soil updates (K. Baker, LADCO)
09:00 Differences Using the New and Old MCIP for CMAQ Applications (P. Dolwick, US EPA/NOAA)
09:30 Layer Collapsing using MCIPv2.1 (Z. Wang, UC-Riverside)
10:15 Discussion: Issues associated with using the RUC/ETA or similar model output directly in photochemical models—Experiences, Uses, and Abuses
10:30 Discussion: Issues of WRF for photochemical modeling and MM5’s future
11:15 Open Discussion for Other Topics
12:00 End Day 2