WRF

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Multi-Meteorology Air Quality Ensemble
WRF
SMOKE
CMAQ

• Produce eight members by varying WRF-ARW
  physics
• SW LW Radiation (Goddard/RRTM and CAM)
• Surface and Boundary Layer (MYJ and Yonsei
  University)
• Cumulus (New Kain-Fritsch and Grell-Devenyi
  Ensemble)
• Test on Summer 2006 ozone events in northeast
  U.S.
• Explore research questions
• How sensitive is emissions model to physics
  options?
• How sensitive is air quality model to physics
  options?
• Is the spread sufficient to represent forecast
  uncertainty?

Debra Baker, PhD Student, Department of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of
Maryland, College Park Advisor Eugenia Kalnay
Committee Da-Lin Zhang, Russ Dickerson, Ross
Salawitch, and Jeff Stehr Funding National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
E-mail drb_at_atmos.umd.edu