Application of the MM5-FDDA meteorological model to the southern California SCAQS-1997 domain: Preliminary test using the SCAQS August 1987 case

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:422891

Seaman, N L; Stauffer, D R ^[1]; McNally, D E ^[2]; Tanrikulu, S ^[3]

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1. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
2. Alpine Geophysics, Covington, KY (United States)
3. California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA (United States)

Efforts are underway to plan for a major field-data collection, analysis and regional modeling program over virtually all of the southern half of California as early as the summer of 1997. Referred to as the Southern California Air Quality Study (SCAQS-97), the program has several major objectives, including acquisition of emissions, air-quality and meteorological data needed to adapt, evaluate, and apply state-of-the-science models to the region. Once refined and evaluated, these models are expected to serve as the framework for ozone and PM-10 control planning in the region for the next decade. The primary objective of this paper is to summarize ongoing work to adapt the most highly refined, publicly available regional air-quality, meteorological and emissions models to the SCAQS-97 domain, using the August 1987 SCAQS episode as the prototype. The focus of this research activity is to demonstrate the capabilities of these advanced models in designing data-collection networks for SCAQS-97 and to identify areas of needed model refinement.

• OSTI ID: 422891
• Report Number(s): CONF-960127--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR QUALITY
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MATHEMATICAL MODELS
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REGIONAL ANALYSIS