AGENDA

Ad Hoc Meteorological Modeling Group

Being held at Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO)

2250 East Devon Avenue, Suite 250, Des Plaines, IL 60018 (847) 296-2181

July 29-30, 2003

Day 1 – July 29

10:00 Welcome and Introductions (Attendees)

10:15 Future direction of this group: New Chairperson selection

10:30 Annual 2001 U.S. & Other Western U.S. MM5 Applications (D. McNalley, Alpine GeoPhysics)

11:30 Annual 2002 MM5 Application (M. Johnson, Iowa)

12:00 Lunch (pizza to be brought in)

12:45 High resolution MM5 modeling for Kansas City (B. Anderson, US EPA R7)

01:15 MM5 Application for Texas (C. Emery, ENVIRON)

02:00 MM5/RAMS Application for San Francisco Bay Area/Texas (C. Tremback, ATmet)

02:45 VISTAS MM5 Modeling Background (M. Abraczinskas, North Carolina)

03:00 VISTAS MM5 Modeling (D. Olerud, BARON)

04:00 Using Canadian MC2 to support CMAQ/SMOKE (Xin Qiu, RWDI Inc.)

05:00 Adjourn

Day 2 – July 30

08:30 PX model performance at 36 and 12 km grid resolution and with and

without soil updates (K. Baker, LADCO)

09:00 Differences Using the New and Old MCIP for CMAQ Applications

(P. Dolwick, US EPA/NOAA)

09:30 Layer Collapsing using MCIPv2.1 (Z. Wang, UC-Riverside)

10:15 Discussion: Issues associated with using the RUC/ETA or

similar model output directly in photochemical models

—Experiences, Uses, and Abuses

10:30 Discussion: Issues of WRF for photochemical modeling and MM5’s future

11:15 Open Discussion for Other Topics

12:00 End Day 2