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3rd International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (IWAQFR) - November 29 - December 1, 2011 - Washington, D.C.

Presentations

Plenary Session
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11/29/2011 Forecasting Perspective from Europe Liisa Jalkanen icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 5.53 MB)
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(PDF, 2.02 MB)
11/29/2011 Perspective from Mexico Air Quality Forecasting Program José Agustín García Reynoso icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 6.87 MB)
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(PDF, 2.48 MB)
11/29/2011 Development of the Chinese Chemical Weather Forecasting System - CUACE and its Application in AQ Forecasts Xiao-Ye Zhang icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 6.69 MB)
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(PDF, 6.75 MB)
11/29/2011 Perspective from India Gufran Beig icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 15.16 MB)
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(PDF, 5.33 MB)
11/29/2011 KEYNOTE: Air Quality perspectives from Japan and Response/impact of the recent Earthquake/Tsunami Seiji Sugata icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 6.08 MB)
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(PDF, 6.96 MB)
11/29/2011 The Australian Air Quality Forecasting System - Lessons Learned and Looking Forward Martin Cope icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 6.08 MB)
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(PDF, 3.52 MB)
11/29/2011 Canada's Air Quality Forecasting System: Operations and Research Véronique Bouchet icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 3.96 MB)
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(PDF, 2.12 MB)
11/29/2011 National Air Quality Forecast Capability in the United States Ivanka Stajner icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 9.68 MB)
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(PDF, 5.89 MB)


Theme 1: Particulate Matter Forecasting Challenges and Progress
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11/29/2011 From Off-line to On-Line Models: Model Intercomparisons and Transition to Forecasting Paul Makar icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 4.36 MB)
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(PDF, 3.82 MB)
11/29/2011 Application of a volatility basis set model to secondary organic aerosol simulations across the U.S. Stu McKeen icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 2.4 MB)
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(PDF, 1.39 MB)
11/29/2011 Review of Cloud Processing of Gases and Aerosols in Current AQ Models Wanmin Gong icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPT, 4.35 MB)
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(PDF, 2.09 MB)
11/29/2011 Real time forecast of tropospheric ozone and smoke aerosol produced from vegetation fires over South America Saulo R. Freitas icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 31.03 MB)
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(PDF, 7.2 MB)
11/29/2011 Modeling Dynamic Partitioning of Semi-volatile Organic Gases to Size-Distributed Aerosols Rahul A. Zaveri icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPT, 3.73 MB)
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(PDF, 1.84 MB)


Theme 2: Meteorological Modeling Needs For Air Quality Forecasting
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11/29/2011 Assimilation of Satellite Observed Clouds in WRF Arastoo Pour Biazar   icon: Adobe PDF file
(PDF, 712 KB)
11/29/2011 Recent Improvements Towards Improving the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Modeling Capability Jeff McQueen icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 6.15 MB)
icon: Adobe PDF file
(PDF, 5.7 MB)
11/29/2011 High resolution modelling for London, UK using an urban surface exchange parameterisation for METRAS David Grawe icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 4.54 MB)
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(PDF, 2.67 MB)
11/29/2011 The role of meteorological factors in pollution transport and characterization at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the BORTAS-B field campaign Doug Steeves icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 3.56 MB)
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(PDF, 2.67 MB)


Theme 3: Emissions Forecasting Developments and Intermittent Sources
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11/29/2011 Satellite Ocean Color Remote Sensing and Its Applications for Marine Air Quality Modeling Menghua Wang icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPT, 12.22 MB)
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(PDF, 2.98 MB)
11/29/2011 On contribution of wild-land fires to atmospheric composition Marie Prank icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 2.06 MB)
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(PDF, 1.08 MB)
11/29/2011 Wildfire Emissions in the Canadian GEM-MACH Air Quality Forecast System Jack Chen icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 8.01 MB)
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(PDF, 1.11 MB)
11/29/2011 Wild fires in North and Central America as extra-CONUS-domain intermittent sources for NAQFC Pius Lee icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 27.35 MB)
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(PDF, 2.23 MB)
11/30/2011 Is the time right to add lightning-NO to operational air quality forecast models? Dale Allen icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 2.41 MB)
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(PDF, 1.64 MB)
11/30/2011 Towards Emission Forecasting Daniel Tong icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 1.36 MB)
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(PDF, 1.11 MB)
11/30/2011 Consistency between surface emissions at different scales for use in regional and global forecasting models Claire Granier   icon: Adobe PDF file
(PDF, 6.63 MB)
11/30/2011 KEYNOTE: Towards forecasting of biochemical air quality-Understanding the atmospheric allergens, their features and interactions with chemical pollutants Mikhail Sofiev icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 37 MB)
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(PDF, 2.35 MB)


Theme 4: Evaluation and Post-Processing
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11/30/2011 MACC regional air quality multi-model forecasts: rationale and alternatives to the median ensemble Philippe Moinat icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 11.45 MB)
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(PDF, 5.63 MB)
11/30/2011 The XM Tool Project: The Lessons Learned in Non-Linear Statistical Modeling for Air Quality Forecasting in Canada Andrew Teakles icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 3.44 MB)
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(PDF, 2.87 MB)
11/30/2011 Evaluation of Real-time Air Quality Forecasts from WRF-NMM/CMAQ and NMMB/CMAQ Using Discover-AQ P-3B Airborne Measurements Youhua Tang icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 10.75 MB)
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(PDF, 11.95 MB)
11/30/2011 Evaluation and Application of Air Quality Model System in Shanghai Qian Wang icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 9.61 MB)
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(PDF, 4 MB)
11/30/2011 Results from System of Air Quality Forecasting And Research for Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Gufran Beig icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 844 KB)
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(PDF, 559 KB)
11/30/2011 Preliminary Comparisons of CMAQ and in-situ O3, NO2, and HCHO observations during DISCOVER-AQ Melanie Follette-Cook icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 6.94 MB)
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(PDF, 5.87 MB)
11/30/2011 The use of a multi-model ensemble in local operational ozone forecasting Bill Ryan icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 1.84 MB)
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(PDF, 953 KB)
12/1/2011 KEYNOTE: A Closer Integration of Models and Observations across Air Quality/Weather/Climate Applications -- A Challenge and Opportunity for Improved Prediction & Analysis Greg Carmichael icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 27.24 MB)
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(PDF, 9.42 MB)


Theme 5: Data Assimilation
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12/1/2011 Estimating NOx emissions and trends by combining measurements, air quality models and Ensemble Kalman Filter data assimilation Henk Eskes   icon: Adobe PDF file
(PDF, 8.87 MB)
12/1/2011 Nested Global and Regional aerosol and ozone assimilation and forecasting experiments during the NOAA CalNex field mission Brad Pierce icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 13.39 MB)
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(PDF, 4 MB)
12/1/2011 Experiments with Assimilation of Surface PM2.5 Observations using GSI and EnKF with WRF-Chem during Summer 2010 Mariusz Pagowski icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 17.62 MB)
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(PDF, 1.28 MB)
12/1/2011 Chemical Data Assimilation of MODIS AOD with CMAQ Tianfeng Chai icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 9.25 MB)
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(PDF, 4.97 MB)
12/1/2011 Adaptive air quality management through operational sensitivity forecasting Amir Hakami icon: Microsoft Powerpoint file
(PPTX, 444 KB)
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(PDF, 319 KB)