Updates and evaluation of NOAA's online-coupled air quality model version 7 (AQMv7) within the Unified Forecast System

Li, Wei; Tang, Beiming; Campbell, Patrick C.; Tang, Youhua; Baker, Barry; Moon, Zachary; Tong, Daniel; Huang, Jianping; Wang, Kai; Stajner, Ivanka; Montuoro, Raffaele

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1635-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1635-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1635-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 5

Model evaluation paper

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12 Mar 2025

Model evaluation paper |

| 12 Mar 2025

Updates and evaluation of NOAA's online-coupled air quality model version 7 (AQMv7) within the Unified Forecast System

Wei Li, Beiming Tang, Patrick C. Campbell, Youhua Tang, Barry Baker, Zachary Moon, Daniel Tong, Jianping Huang, Kai Wang, Ivanka Stajner, and Raffaele Montuoro

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1635-2025-supplement

Data sets

AirNow Data Manage Center United States Environmental Protection Agency https://files.airnowtech.org/

Model code and software

noaa-oar-arl/AQM: CMAQv5.4 Paper P. C. Campbell et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10833128

Development of the next-generation air quality prediction system in the Unified Forecast System framework: Enhancing predictability of wildfire air quality impacts (https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/releases) J. Huang et al. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0053.1

Short summary

The study describes the updates of NOAA's current UFS-AQMv7 air quality forecast model by...