WRF-Chem
Inclusion of ash and SO2 emissions from volcanic eruptions in WRF-Chem: development and some applications
... the WRF-Chem ini- tialization, we combined the 2 eruptions in one 23 min erup- tion starting on 14 December 1989, 19:00 ...the WRF-Chem ...the WRF-Chem run were derived from the ...
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PM2 5 Estimation with the WRF/Chem Model, Produced by Vehicular Flow in the Lima Metropolitan Area
... Because on-road vehicles are the most important sources of air pollution in AML, according to DIGESA, more than 78% of pollutant emissions are generat- ed by vehicular emissions; the anthropogenic emissions of trace ...
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Multimodel simulations of a springtime dust storm over northeastern China: implications of an evaluation of four commonly used air quality models (CMAQ v5.2.1, CAMx v6.50, CHIMERE v2017r4, and WRF-Chem v3.9.1)
... dust scheme in WRF-Chem yielded similar spatial pat- terns. AFWA and UOC_Shao2004 yielded higher correla- tions than GOCART but both considerably overestimated surface dust concentrations. Of the dust ...
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Twelve-month, 12 km resolution North American WRF-Chem v3.4 air quality simulation: performance evaluation
... Wang, W., Bruyère, C., Duda, M., Dudhia, J., Gill, D., Kavulich, M., Keene, K., Lin, H.-C., Michalakes, J., Rizvi, S., Zhang, X., Berner, J., and Smith, K.: Weather Research and Forecast- ing: ARW: Version 3 Modeling ...
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Evaluation of the high resolution WRF-Chem (v3.4.1) air quality forecast and its comparison with statistical ozone predictions
... the WRF-Chem outper- forms the persistence already in the 1-day ...with WRF-Chem performing worse than the statistical ...stations WRF-Chem shows higher CORR than persistence for ...
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Air quality modeling with WRF-Chem v3.5 in East Asia: sensitivity to emissions and evaluation of simulated air quality
... We use the fully coupled “online” regional chemical trans- port model WRF-Chem version 3.5 (Grell et al., 2005) in this study. The Regional Acid Deposition Model ver- sion 2 (RADM2) atmospheric chemical ...
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Importance of reactive halogens in the tropical marine atmosphere : A regional modelling study using WRF-Chem
... The model is set up with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 km × 30 km and 30 vertical layers up to 50 hPa. Simulations that study the oxidation of VOCs by Br over the tropical area (de- scribed in Sect. 4.1) are performed ...
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Importance of reactive halogens in the tropical marine atmosphere : A regional modelling study using WRF-Chem
... The model is set up with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 km × 30 km and 30 vertical layers up to 50 hPa. Simulations that study the oxidation of VOCs by Br over the tropical area (de- scribed in Sect. 4.1) are performed ...
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Implementation of aerosol assimilation in Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (v. 3.2) and WRF-Chem (v. 3.4.1)
... For parameterizations other than GOCART, specifying background error statistics for a large number of aerosol species is, in our opinion, overly burdensome, especially because such statistics may not be reliable given ...
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Gaseous chemistry and aerosol mechanism developments for version 3.5.1 of the online regional model, WRF-Chem
... the WRF-Chem model grid and scaled online to calculate the emission rate of isoprene and other emitted species, using model-derived ambient solar radiance, temperature, humidity, wind speed and other ...
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Importance of reactive halogens in the tropical marine atmosphere: A regional modelling study using WRF-Chem
... a similar trend to the observations, although, like the bromocarbons, both simulations present a negative bias during specific periods (days 6-10 and 18-28 of February). This underestimation is more prominent in the ...
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High resolution satellite derived erodibility factors for WRF/Chem windblown dust simulations in Argentina
... description. Thus, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data (Rodríguez et al., 2005) was included through the WRF Preprocessing System (WPS). For this simulation, land use classification was derived from ...
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Modeling regional air quality and climate: improving organic aerosol and aerosol activation processes in WRF/Chem version 3.7.1
... the WRF Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (WRF-CAM5) (Zhang et ...global-through-urban WRF/Chem (GU-WRF/Chem) (Zhang et ...into WRF/Chem following the methods of ...
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Simulations over South Asia using the Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF-Chem): chemistry evaluation and initial results
... precursors. WRF-Chem ozone lev- els show significant reduction during summertime at all the sites except at Nainital, and it is seen that these reduced val- ues are in good agreement with the observed ...
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Air quality modelling in the Berlin–Brandenburg region using WRF-Chem v3.7.1: sensitivity to resolution of model grid and input data
... the WRF-Chem ...our WRF-Chem ...The WRF-Chem simulations were done on the high-performance cluster of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact ...
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Assessing the CAM5 physics suite in the WRF-Chem model: implementation, resolution sensitivity, and a first evaluation for a regional case study
... and WRF, porting the CAM5 macro- physics parameterization to WRF is quite ...in WRF are applied after the con- vection scheme is called instead of in a separate macro- physics ...standard WRF ...
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A new WRF-Chem treatment for studying regional-scale impacts of cloud processes on aerosol and trace gases in parameterized cumuli
... the physical properties of the cumulus clouds (shallow or deep; lifetime; updraft and downdraft mass fluxes, entrain- ment, and vertical velocity; mixing ratios of cloud water, ice, and precipitation; and microphysical ...
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Ozone air quality simulations with WRF-Chem (v3.5.1) over Europe: model evaluation and chemical mechanism comparison
... two chem- ical mechanisms within an online coupled regional air qual- ity ...of WRF-Chem provides an advantage in that it is compatible with multiple different chemical mech- anisms, allowing us to ...
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Trans-Pacific transport and evolution of aerosols: evaluation of quasi-global WRF-Chem simulation with multiple observations
... the simulation and the AERONET retrieval, respectively, and the maximum of 0.055 and 0.054 in October. The model overestimates AAOD in the warm months (May–September) with the mean values of 0.046 and 0.036 from the ...
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Sensitivity of the WRF-Chem (V3.6.1) model to different dust emission parametrisation: assessment in the broader Mediterranean region
... The AOD differences between the WRF-Chem simula- tions and the MODIS estimations (as shown in Fig. 2) are presented in Fig. 3. To be consistent with the Equator cross- ing time difference between Aqua and ...
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