Agenda for 2007 Ad Hoc Meteorological Modeling Group meeting

Location: NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder CO

Dates: June 14^th – June 15^th, 2007

Thursday, June 14^th:

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introductions (attendees)

9:20 – 10:00 Comparisons between a 3DVAR/MM5 simulation and a nudged MM5 simulation

(Mike McAtee – Aerospace Corp)

10:00 – 10:40 Status of RAMS model and recent met/AQ applications

(Craig Tremback – ATMET)

10:40 – 11:20 36/12/4km performance of 2005 MM5 Simulation for the Upper Midwest

(Dennis McNally – Alpine Geophysics)

11:30 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:40 Performance and improvement of MM5 for CAMx modeling in Southern CA

(Sang-Mi Lee - SCAQMD)

1:40 – 2:20 Evaluation of Air Quality Forecasting with Weather Classification

(D. Byun – University of Houston)

2:20 – 3:00 Implementation of Pleim-Xiu Land Surface Model and Version 2 of the

Asymmetric Convective PBL Model in the Weather, Research and Forecasting

Model (WRF) - (Rob Gilliam - EPA)

3:00 – 3:20 Break

3:20 – 4:00 Demonstration of tool for extracting MM5 data for use in AERMOD applications

(Pat Dolwick - EPA)

4:00 – 4:40 Effects of Cloud Attenuation on Air Quality: A Comparison of Model Treatments

(Pat Dolwick – EPA)

Friday, June 15^th:

8:00 – 8:40 Discussion on NCEP modeling activities

(Peter Manousos – First Energy)

8:40 – 9:20 Evaluating Meteorological Variables for Biogenic Emissions Modeling

(Kirk Baker - LADCO)

9:20 – 10:00 The Impact of Nudging in the Meteorological Model for Retrospective CMAQ Simulations

(T. Otte - EPA)

10:00 – 10:40 Regional Climate Modeling using Downscaled GCM data with MM5

(B. Anderson – EPA)

10:40 – 11:20 Results of Integrating the Models-3 I/O API and SMOKE emissions models into WRF-Chem

(J. McHenry – BAMS)

11:20 – 12:00 Wrap Up