Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2169-2020
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2169-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model evaluation paper
| 
07 May 2020
Model evaluation paper |
| 07 May 2020
| 07 May 2020
Evaluating a fire smoke simulation algorithm in the National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) by using multiple observation data sets during the Southeast Nexus (SENEX) field campaign
NOAA/OAR/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
UMD/Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies
(CISESS), College Park, MD 20740, USA
now at: NOAA/NCEP/EMC and I.M.S.G, IMSG, Rockville, MD 20852. USA
HyunCheol Kim
NOAA/OAR/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
UMD/Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies
(CISESS), College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pius Lee
NOAA/OAR/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Rick Saylor
NOAA/OAR/ARL/Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Oak
Ridge, TN 37830, USA
YouHua Tang
NOAA/OAR/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
UMD/Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies
(CISESS), College Park, MD 20740, USA
Daniel Tong
NOAA/OAR/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
GMU/CISESS, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Barry Baker
NOAA/OAR/Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD 20740, USA
UMBC/CISESS, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Shobha Kondragunta
NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Chuanyu Xu
I. M. Systems Group at NOAA, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Mark G. Ruminski
NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Weiwei Chen
Northeast Institutes of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, P. R. China
Jeff Mcqueen
NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD 20740,
USA
Ivanka Stajner
NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD 20740,
USA
Model code and software
EMC-aqfs NOAA-EMC https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/EMC_aqfs
Short summary
Compared to anthropogenic emissions, emissions from wildfires are largely uncontrolled and unpredictable. Quantitatively describing wildfire emissions and their contributions to air pollution remains a substantial challenge for air quality forecasting efforts. In this study, we test the wildfire calculation algorithm used by the National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (NAQFC) by comparison with ground, satellite and flight measurements during the Southeast Nexus (SENEX) field experiment.
Compared to anthropogenic emissions, emissions from wildfires are largely uncontrolled and...
