Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecasting Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16

Campbell, Patrick C.; Tang, Youhua; Lee, Pius; Baker, Barry; Tong, Daniel; Saylor, Rick; Stein, Ariel; Huang, Jianping; Huang, Ho-Chun; Strobach, Edward; McQueen, Jeff; Pan, Li; Stajner, Ivanka; Sims, Jamese; Tirado-Delgado, Jose; Jung, Youngsun; Yang, Fanglin; Spero, Tanya L.; Gilliam, Robert C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3281-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3281-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3281-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 8

Model description paper

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21 Apr 2022

Model description paper |

| 21 Apr 2022

Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecasting Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16

Patrick C. Campbell, Youhua Tang, Pius Lee, Barry Baker, Daniel Tong, Rick Saylor, Ariel Stein, Jianping Huang, Ho-Chun Huang, Edward Strobach, Jeff McQueen, Li Pan, Ivanka Stajner, Jamese Sims, Jose Tirado-Delgado, Youngsun Jung, Fanglin Yang, Tanya L. Spero, and Robert C. Gilliam

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3281-2022-supplement

Data sets

Global Forecast System (GFS) Version 16 NOAA/NWS https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/

Air Quality Forecast Guidance - Operational NOAA/NWS https://airquality.weather.gov/

Air Quality Forecast Guidance - Experimental NOAA/NWS https://digital.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/airquality/

Operational CMAQ Verification - Experimental NOAA/NWS https://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/aq/verification_diagnostics/cmaq_verf/

Model code and software

The NOAA-EPA Atmosphere-Chemistry Coupler (NACC) P. C. Campbell https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5507489

The Advanced National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) P. C. Campbell https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5507511

Short summary

NOAA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) continues to protect Americans from the harmful effects of air pollution, while saving billions of dollars per year. Here we describe and evaluate the development of the most advanced version of the NAQFC to date, which became operational at NOAA on 20 July 2021. The new NAQFC is based on a coupling of NOAA's operational Global Forecast System (GFS) version 16 with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.3.1.