October 19, 2009 - Grumman Auditorium
8:30 AMOpening Remarks, Dr. Larry Band, Director, Institute for the Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill
8:45 AMCMAS Update, Dr. Adel Hanna, Director, CMAS
Instrumented Photochemical Modeling Session, Chaired by Kirk Baker and Sergey Napelenok (US EPA)
9:00 AM Accuracy of multi-parameter response surfaces generated using sensitivity coefficients
Daniel Cohan
9:20 AM Efficient characterization of uncertainty in control strategy impact predictions.
Antara Digar
9:40 AM Assessment of the Sources of Organic Carbon at Monitoring Sites in the Southeastern United States Using Receptor and Deterministic Models
Ralph Morris
10:00 AM Comparison of PM Source Apportionment and Sensitivity Analysis in CAMx
Greg Yarwood
10:20 AM Break
10:50 AM Adjoint sensitivities for analysis of PM2.5 sources
Daven Henze
11:10 AM Adjoint Modeling for Improved Effectiveness of Emission Trading Systems
Seyyed Morteza Mesbah
11:30 AM Intercontinental source attribution of ozone pollution at western U.S. sites using an adjoint method
Lin Zhang
11:50 AM Development of the adjoint of ISOYYOPIA
Shannon Capps
12:10 PM Inverse modelling of emissions and their time profiles
Jaroslav Resler
12:30 PM Lunch, Trillium Room
Air Quality Forecasting Session, Chaired by Daewon Byun (NOAA)
1:30 PM Comparison between Forecasting and Retrospective Air Quality Simulations of the 2006 TexAQS II
Daewon Byun
1:50 PM Preliminary Experiences with the Multi-Model Air Quality Forecasting System for New York State
Prakash Doraiswamy
2:10 PM Performance of NOAA-EPA Air Quality Predictions, 2007-2009
Jerry L. Gorline
2:30 PM Comprehensive evaluation on air quality forecasting ability of Hi-Res in southeastern United States
Yongtao Hu
2:50 PM Five-year Progress in the Performance of Air Quality Forecast Models: Analysis on Categorical Statistics for the National Air Quality Forecast Capacity (NAQFC)
Daiwen Kang
3:10 PM Break
3:40 PM A New Operational Air Quality Prediction System Over Italy
Luca Delle Monache
4:00 PM The CALIOPE high-resolution air quality forecasting system: development and evaluation for Spain and Europe
Matthias Piot
4:20 PM Status of the new Canadian air quality forecast model GEM-MACH15
Mike Moran
October 20, 2009
 Grumman Auditorium Redbud Room
  Model Development Session, Chaired by Rohit Mathur (US EPA) and Talat Odman (Georgia Tech) Air Quality and Climate Change Session, Chaired by Bill Benjey (US EPA)
8:10 AM An adaptive grid version of CMAQ for improving the resolution of plumes
Talat Odman
Dynamical Downscaling of NASA/GISS ModelE Using WRF
Tanya Otte
8:30 AM SAPRC07T Implementation within the CMAQ model.
William T. Hutzell
Examination of Future Air Quality Using Alternate Emission Scenarios
Chris Nolte
8:50 AM Rosenbrock Approach to the Treatment of Aqueous Chemistry in CMAQ
Annmarie G. Carlton
Studying Climate-Air Quality Interactions using the Global-Through-Urban WRF/Chem
Yang Zhang
9:10 AM Modeling natural fine particle concentrations using the CMAQ Model with added treatments of reduced sulfur compounds
S. Mueller
The effects of Climate Change to the Future Air Quality in United States
Yun-Fat Lam
9:30 AM Application of CMAQ on Hemispheric Scales
Russ Bullock
Cost Analysis of Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Air Quality
Kuo-Jen Liao
9:50 AM Break Break
10:20 AM Recent Status of NEMS/NMMB-AQ Development
Youhua Tang
Future Air Quality in Representative Concentration Pathway Scenarios: Relationships Between Economic Wellbeing and Air Quality
Jason West
10:40 AM Enhance CMAQ performance to meet future challenges
David Wong
Special Demonstration of VERDI
Donna Schwede
  Meteorological Modeling for Air Quality Applications Session, Chaired by Fei Chen (NCAR) Impacts of Air Pollution on Ecological Systems Session, Chaired by Praveen Amar (NESCAUM)
11:00 AM Applications of the Integrated WRF/Urban Modeling System to Regional Air Quality
Fei Chen
Modeled estimates of ecological impacts from the establishment of a U.S. Emissions Control Area (ECA)
Pat Dolwick
11:20 AM Reducing Vertical Transport Over Complex Terrain in Photochemical Grid Models
Christopher Emery
Detroit Multi-pollutant Pilot Project
Karen Wesson
11:40 AM Impacts of Meteorological Variations on YYFs (Relative Response Factors) in the Demonstration of Attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality for 8-hr O3 and PM2.5
Yunhee Kim
12:00 PM Lunch Lunch
  Air Quality Measurements and Observational Studies, Chaired by Neil Wheeler (Sonoma Tech) Emissions Inventories, Models, and Processes, Chaired by Marc Houyoux (US EPA)
1:00 PM Ozonesonde Measurements At Ozone Non-Attainment Area
Segun Ogunjemiyo
Impact of Emissions on intercontinental long range transport
Yang Gao
1:20 PM Analysis and Application of Smoke Plume Rise Measurements
Yongqiang Liu
Enhancing SMOKE to create European emissions with focus on benzo[a]pyrene
Johannes Bieser
1:40 PM Measurement and Modeling of Emissions of Reduced Sulfur Compounds from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Ian C. Rumsey
Towards improved emissions inventories of soil NOx via model/satellite measurement intercomparisons
Heidi Plata
2:00 PM The Sensitivity of U.S. Surface Ozone Formation to NOx and VOCs as Viewed from Space
Bryan N. Duncan
Assessing bi-directional ammonia (NH3) transport within vegetation canopies using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model
Megan L. Gore
2:20 PM Break Break
2:50 PM NOx Emission Inversion Using the Adjoint of CMAQ
Farid Amid
Impact of lightning-NO emissions on eastern United States photochemistry during the summer of 2004 as determinated using the CMAQ model
Dale Allen
3:10 PM Studying present day and future air quality in California using WRF, CMAQ and satellite data
Gregory Osterman
Improvements in Emissions and Modeling of Organic Carbon and Semi-Volatile Organic Carbon from Onroad Vehicles.
Mark Janssen
3:30 PM Use of OMI Data in Monitoring Air Quality Changes Resulting from NOx Emission Regulations over the United States
K. Pickering
Constraining Anthropogenic Emissions of Fugitive Dust with Dynamic Transportable Fraction and Measurements
Daniel Tong
3:50 PM Image Processing Tools for Meteorology and Air Quality Modeling and Preliminary Results
Limei Ran
Using CMAQ to Evaluate Air Quality Impacts of Nano-Cerium Diesel Fuel Additives
Garnet B. Erdakos
4:10 PMPoster Session

Air Quality and Climate Change

William G. Benjey - Developing Alternate Anthropogenic Emission Scenarios for Investigating Future Air Quality

Susan Casper Anenberg - Impacts of Intercontinental Ozone Air Pollution on Human Mortality

Christopher P. Loughner - Investigating the Use of a High Resolution WRF-URBAN CANOPY Model Simulation With CMAQ

Jessica Montanez - The Effects of Future Climate Change on the United States Energy Sector

Steve Plachinski - Sensitivities of Ozone to Climate over the Continental United States

Air Quality Measurements and Observational Studies

Taciana T de A Albuquerque - Evaluation of CMAQ Inorganic Particle Simulations for So Paulo Using Measurement Data

Zhuanshi He - Assessment of the Air Quality Effects of Nitrogen Dioxide in the National Capital Region of Canada by Combining Regional Chemical Transport Modeling with Satellite and Surface Measurements

James Kelley - Using GIS and GWR to compare PM2.5 Concentrations from Pollution Model Output and Satellite Data

Iyad Kheirbek - Implementation of a program to assess neighborhood level variation in air quality in New York City

Roger Kwok - PM size distribution in southern China

Yun Park - Impact of Clouds and Precipitation on Sulfate predictions

Nestor Rojas - Source Apportionment of PM10 at three urban sites of Bogota, Colombia

T. Kunhikrishnan - Sources, distribution and transport of aerosols over UAE, based on multiple satellites, in-situ observations and a regional meteorology model.

Neil Wheeler - The Arizona Construction Emissions Field Study

Air Quality Modeling Applications

Ming Tung Chuang - Initial Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID for Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting over the Southeastern United States

Eun-Su Yang - Improving CMAQ air quality forecasts using satellite observations

Emissions Inventories, Models, and Processes

Erica Bickford - Modeling Impacts of Freight Modal Shifts on Regional Air Quality

Luis Alonso Diaz-Robles - Modeling of the Biogenic Emissions using WRF/MCIP/MEGAN in the South of Chile

Enrique Gonzalez - TSP and PM10 Emissions Inventory for Open Pit Mining

Li Jie - Impact of open crop residual burning for air quality of central east China in 2006

David Mobley - Whats New in SPECIATE 4.2

Impacts of Air Pollution on Ecological Systems

Enrique Gonzalez - Use of ISC, AERMOD and CALPUFF to evaluate air quality impact of point sources in a small city

Kuo-Jen Liao - Optimization of Integrated Control Strategies for Regional Ozone and PM2.5 Reductions

Kristen M. Olsen - Assessing the Impacts of Reduced SO2, NOx, and Agricultural Livestock NH3 Emissions on Air Quality in the Southeastern U.S.

Instrumented Photochemical Modeling

Kirk Baker - Multi-Pollutant and Photochemical Model Source Apportionment Modeling: Source Sectors to Single Sources

Michael J. Burr - Source Apportionment of PM2.5 over the Eastern U.S. Using CMAQ

Sharon Douglas - Application of the CMAQ Ozone and Particle Precursor Tagging Methodologies to Assess Air Quality Contributions from Oil & Gas Sources in the Western States

Jie Li - Role of regional anthropogenic emissions in the summer surface ozone maximum in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau-modeling studies

Maryam Mirzajani - Adjoint Analysis of North American Intra-Continental Transport of Ozone

S.L. Napelenok - Sources of Primary and Secondary Organic Carbon in Midwestern U.S.

Matthew Russell - Analysis of differences between concentration and sensitivity fields of independent models

Qi Ying - Source Contributions of Volatile Organic Compounds to Ozone Formation in Southeast Texas

Meteorological Modeling for Air Quality Applications

Kirk Baker - An Evaluation of Photochemical Model estimated PM2.5 and ozone using MM5 and WRF inputs for the Western United States

Rob Gilliam - WRF Version 3.1 for Retrospective Air Quality Applications

R. Pavlovic - The Impact of Meteorological Variability on the Modelling of Air Quality Scenarios

Model Development

Neil Davis - A Hybrid CMAQ and AERMOD Approach to Investigate the Impact of Airports on Local Air Quality

Xin-Yi Dong - Simulating Transport and Fate of Agriculturally-Emitted Species using CMAQ

Jerry Herwehe - A CMAQ and WRF/Chem Model Intercomparison for August 2006

Eloy Vilchis - Using CFD to simulate particle dispersion and deposition

Byeong-Uk Kim - Note on applications of geographical information in air quality modeling

Pius Lee - Profiling of the operational and experimental codes of the National Air Quality Forecast Capability running in NCEP power 6 IBM super computer

Talat Odman - A sub-grid scale model for the treatment of biomass burning plumes in CMAQ

Donna Schwede - Recent Updates to the Visualization Environment for Rich Data Interpretation (VERDI)

Jeff Young - Mass Consistency Improvements in CMAQ Advection

Model Evaluation and Analysis

Saravanan Arunachalam - Multipollutant Modeling for the Middle East - An Initial Assessment of Outdoor Air Quality in the U.A.E.

Prakash Bhave - Evaluation of the CMAQ Model for Size-Resolved PM Composition

George Delic - Analysis of CMAQ Performance on Quad Core Processors

Zuber Farooqui - Assessment of Dust Storms within UAE Using Observational Data and CMAQ-WRF Modeling Framework

Barron Henderson - Python-based Environment for Reaction Mechanisms

Christian Hogrefe - Assessment of the relationship of ozone with emissions and meteorology by based on MM5/CMAQ long term simulations

Chong Bum Lee - A Simulation of the Nighttime Ozone Episode occurred in Central Region of Korea Peninsular

Yu Morino - Urban-Scale Model Intercomparison for O3 and PM2.5 Simulation in Tokyo Metropolitan Area in Summer 2007

Harshal Parikh - Comparison of model-predicted concentrations with solution from an observation-based Differential-Algebraic Equation (DAE) system, for fast-reacting species.

C. A. Stroud - Ozone and particle process-tracking using a high resolution air-quality model with comparisons to the BAQSMet field campaign

Kai Wang - Evaluation of 2002 Multi-Pollutant Modeling Platform Using Satellite Measurements

Neil Wheeler - The Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project

Neil Wheeler - An Evaluation of Modeled Plume Rise with Satellite Data

Matthew Woody - Secondary Organic Aerosol produced from Aircraft Emissions at the Atlanta Airport - An Advanced Diagnostic Investigation using Process Analyses

6:00 PMReception
October 21, 2009 - Grumman Auditorium
Model Evaluation and Analysis Session, Chaired by Kenneth Schere (US EPA)
8:30 AM Evaluation of CMAQ v4.7 Sulfate Predictions for 2002 - 2006
K. Wyat Appel
8:50 AM Application of WRF-CMAQ Modeling System to Study of Urban and Regional Air Pollution in Bangladesh
M. A. Muntaseer Billah Ibn Azkar
9:10 AM Applications of Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model and Response Surface Model (RSM) in China
Carey Jang
9:30 AM Impacts of Istanbul Emissions on Regional Air quality: Quantification Using Model-3 Framework and Trajectory Analysis
Huseyin Ozdemir
9:50 AM Evaluation of CMAQ Performance During the Rocky Mountain Atmospheric Nitrogen and Sulfur (RoMANS) Study
Uma Shankar
10:10 AM Break
10:40 AM Secondary Organic Aerosol produced from Aircraft Emissions at the Atlanta Airport - An Advanced Diagnostic Investigation using Process Analyses
Matthew Woody
11:00 AM Evaluation and Application of AMSTERDAM
Eladio Knipping
11:20 AM The role of chemistry in upper troposphere NO2 under-predictions
Barron Henderson
11:40 AM A Comparison of Observed and Simulated Long-Term Ozone Fluctuations and Trends Over the Northeastern United States
Christian Hogrefe
12:00 PM An Evaluation of CMAQ's Performance in the Planetary Boundary Layer and Free Troposphere Using Ozonesonde Soundings
Brian Eder
12:20 PM Lunch, Trillium Room
1:20 PM Simulation of Wintertime High Ozone Concentrations in Southwestern Wyoming
Ralph Morris
1:40 PM Process Analysis Techniques to investigate ozone production in regulatory simulations of Houston, TX
William Vizuete
2:00 PM Evaluation of sulfate simulations using CMAQ version 4.6
Yuhang Wang
2:20 PM Sensitivity study of the response of sulfate aerosols to changes in primary sources
Ariel Stein
2:40 PM Break
3:10 PM Simulations with MM5-CMAQ and WRF/CHEM models of a high elevated PM10 and PM2.5 episode in Germany during Winter, 2003
Roberto San Jose
3:30 PM Evaluation of CMAQ for the Precursor-Specific Contributions to SOA in the Southeastern U.S.
Prakash Bhave
3:50 PM Anthropogenic Impacts on Organic Carbon during the 2007 BAQS-Met Field Study
Craig Stroud
4:10 PM Investigation of OM/OC Using Ambient Measurements
Heather Simon
4:30 PM Modeling and Ambient Monitoring of Air Toxics in Corpus Christi, Texas
Gary McGaughey