GOESR3 Periodic Reporting
Project Team:
Reporting Period:
September 2012 - February 2013
Team Lead:
Team Members:
Shobha Kondragunta
Qiang Zhao
Project Title: Assimilation of GOES-R ABI Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) in a Regional Air Quality
Model to Improve Surface PM2.5 Forecasts
Project Number:
53
Executive Summary
Because NCEP has temporarily suspended aerosol assimilation activities, we have been working
towards a revised set of milestones and deliverables (see below). The latest versions of the
Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modelling system and the emission processing system
Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) have been installed and tested on one of STAR
machines. The National Emissions Inventory (NEI) data sets are being collected for whole scale model
testing and simulations.
Milestones
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Port Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to STAR computers.
Build a standalone GSI system capable of assimilating satellite derived aerosol products (proxy
GOES-R data – GOES and MODIS AODs) into CMAQ model.
Accomplishments & Plans
Accomplishments:
1. Configured and installed prerequisite software packages for CMAQ on one of STAR 64-bit Linux
machines:
a. The Network Common Data Form (netCDF) version 4.2.1.1 with netCDF FORTRAN
libraries built.
b. The Input/Output Application Programmers Interface (IOAPI) version 3.1.
2. Configured and installed CMAQ modelling system version 5.0.1 on STAR machines. Setup and
ran the following model components for a benchmark test:
a. Initial conditions pre-processor ICON;
b. Boundary conditions pre-processor BCON;
c. Photolysis rate processor JPROC;
d. CMAQ Chemical Transport Model CCTM.
3. Developed a CMAQ model output verification package capable of extracting, computing and
visualizing any CMAQ model variable in any model layer with appropriate contour levels on the
fly.
4. Configured and installed the emission processing system SMOKE version 3.1 on STAR
machines. A test case with whole set of emission types has been processed and verified.
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5. The National Emissions Inventory 2008 V2 and Particular Matter (PM) NAAQS 2007v5 platform
data sets have been collected from EPA. Data formats and structures have been studied.
Future Plans
1. Develop a software package to convert NCEP NAM model output to CMAQ ready data files in
netCDF/IOAPI format.
2. Reconfigure the CMAQ and SMOKE models for simulation studies on domains of interest.
3. Build a standalone GSI system capable of assimilating satellite derived aerosol products (proxy
GOES-R data – GOES and MODIS AODs) into CMAQ model.
Additional Information
1. Interaction with operational partners – NCEP
2. Conference/workshop participation –
3. Funding concerns –
4. Outside project publicity – GOES-R Air Quality Proving Ground activities
5. Journal articles – Article in preparation for submission to JGR-Atmospheres
Plans for the next Reporting Period:
Finish the paper and submit it.
Key Graphics
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