October 23, 2017

 Grumman Auditorium
7:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM A/V Upload
8:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Dr. Terry Magnuson, UNC Vice Chancellor for Research
8:45 AM
CMAS Status Update, Adel Hanna (UNC)
8:55 AM
Keynote Address: NASA'S Satellite and Sub-Orbital Measurements for Air Quality and Health Applications
Ali H. Omar, Langley Science Directorate and Acting Head, Atmospheric Composition Branch
9:40 AM
Plenary Address: Fine scale street-level AQ informatics system for exposure
Jimmy Fung, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10:10 AM Break
 Grumman Auditorium Dogwood Room
 

Improving the Characterization of the Ambient NOy Budget

Chaired by Heather Simon and Darrell Sonntag, US EPA

Regulatory Modeling and SIP Applications

Chaired by Pat Dolwick and Brian Timin, US EPA
10:40 AM Technical discussions on Emissions and Atmospheric Modeling (TEAM)
Barron Henderson 		Retrospective analysis of the air quality health benefits of phasing out coal-fired power plants in Ontario
Yasar Burak Oztaner
11:00 AM Evaluation of NOx Emissions and Modeling
Barron Henderson 		Developing Strategies to Attain Air Quality Standards in the South Coast Air Basin of California and Evaluating Precursor Emission Trading Ratios for PM2.5 Formation
Marc Carreras-Sospedra
11:20 AM Reconciling modeled and observed upper tropospheric NO2 for the interpretation of satellite measurements
Rachel Silvern 		Hybrid Plume/Grid Modeling for the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Annual PM2.5 State Implementation Plan
Christopher Emery
11:40 AM Evaluation of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides in Houston, Texas Using Three-Dimensional Aircraft Observations during the DISCOVER-AQ 2013 Mission
Jim Smith 		Modeled Impacts of Wood Burning Controls on 24-hour PM2.5 Attainment in Fairbanks, Alaska
Mark Hixson
12:00 PM Lunch in Trillium
 

Improving the Characterization of the Ambient NOy Budget

Regulatory Modeling and SIP Applications
1:00 PM Real world emissions of NOx and other pollutants in the Ft. McHenry tunnel
A. Khlystov 		Source apportionment of reactive nitrogen deposition in the Greater Yellowstone Area using CAMx-PSAT
Rui Zhang
1:20 PM MOVES-Based NOx Analyses for Urban Case Studies in Texas
Kenneth Craig 		Representative Meteorological Data for AERMOD: A Case Study of WRF-Extracted Data Versus Nearby Airport Data
Tiffany Stefanescu
1:40 PM Modeling Ozone in the Eastern U.S. using a Fuel-Based Mobile Source Emissions Inventory
Brian McDonald 		Application of ABaCAS (Air Benefit and Cost and Attainment Assessment System)-TX for Ozone Non-attainment in Southeast Texas
Tingting Cao
2:00 PM Comparison of light-duty gasoline NOx emission rates estimated from MOVES with real-world measurements
Darrell Sonntag 		Source Apportionment Modeling to Investigate Background, Regional, and Local Contributions to Ozone Concentrations in Denver, Phoenix, Detroit, and Atlanta
Garnet Erdakos
2:20 PM Break Break
2:50 PM Updates on Production of NOx by Lightning
Kenneth Pickering 		Predicting Future-Year Ozone Concentrations: Integrated Observational-Modeling Approach for Probabilistic Evaluation of the Efficacy of Emission Control strategies
Marina Astitha
3:10 PM Influence of different canopy reduction functions on biogenic NO emission patterns in northern Europe
Jan A. Arndt 		Effects of Relative Reduction Factor Grid Cell Sampling Approaches on Model Attainment Demonstrations
Byeong-Uk Kim
3:30 PM Break Break
3:40 PM
Introduction to posters
  
4:10 - 5:45 PM

Poster Session 1


Emissions Inventories, Models, and Processes
1) Top-down Estimation of North Korean Emissions and Their Impacts on South Korean Air Quality
Minah Bae

2) Improvements to Emission Projection Methods for non-EGU Point and Nonpoint Sources
Caroline M. Farkas

3) A unified prescribed fire database for the Southern United States
Fernando Garcia Menendez

4) Improvement of Speciated Anthropogenic VOC Emissions using KORUS-AQ/MAPS-Seoul Aircraft Field Campaign Data
Jinseok Kim

5) Assessment of important SPECIATE profiles in EPAs emissions modeling platform and current data gaps
Heather Simon

6) PolEmiCa model for local air quality assessment in airports
Kateryna Synylo

7) Assessment and Improvement of the National Emissions Inventory 2013 of South Korea for Ozone Forecasts
Seunghee You

8) Characterizing Space Heating Emissions for Fairbanks PM2.5 Modeling
Wenxian Zhang

Improving the Characterization of the Ambient NOy Budget
9) Sensitivity of MOVES emissions specifications on modeled air quality using traffic data and near-road ambient measurements from the Las Vegas and Detroit field studies
Chris Owen

10) Unconventional Constraints on Nitrogen Chemistry using DC3 Observations and Trajectory-based Chemical Modeling
Qian Shu

11) Evaluating CO:NOx in a near-road environment using ambient data from Las Vegas
Heather Simon

12) Title: Sensitivity of MOVES-estimated vehicle emissions to inputs when comparing to real-world measurements
Darrel Sonntag

13) CAMx Model Sensitivity Analysis of Emissions Temporal Profiles; Impacts on 2011 Modeled NOx/NOy Concentrations
Brian Timin

14) Investigating modeling platform emissions for grid cells associated with a near-road study site during a field campaign in Las Vegas
Claudia Toro

15) Exploring differences in nitrogen oxides overestimation at the seasonal and day-of-week levels to understand potential relationships with mobile source emission inventories.
Claudia Toro

Model Development
16) Development of the Simple Indoor Air Chemistry Simulator (SIACS)
Serena H. Chung

17) Regional impacts of extending inorganic and organic cloud chemistry with AQCHEM-KMT
Kathleen Fahey

18) Implementing Subgrid-Scale Cloudiness into the Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere (MPAS-A) for Next Generation Global Air Quality Modeling
Jerry Herwehe

19) Comparing CMAQ Forecasts with a Neural Network Forecast Model for PM2.5 in New York
Samuel Lightstone

20) New Developments in the Eulerian and Lagrangian Modeling of the Chemistry of Biomass-Burning Plumes
C.R.Lonsdale

21) The influence pre-existing organics on secondary organic aerosol formation from reactive uptake of isoprene epoxydiols in a regional scale model
Mutian Ma

22) Quantifying Primary and Secondary Ultrafine Particle Sources in the United States with CMAQ-NPF
Ben Murphy

23) Bromine and iodine chemistry update in CMAQ
Golam Sarwar

24) Machine Learning Approaches for Air Quality Modeling Applications
Satish Vutukuru

25) FEST-C 1.3 & 2.0 for CMAQ Bi-directional NH3, Crop Production, and SWAT Modeling
Dongmei Yang

26) A CMAQ adjoint with aerosol capabilities
Shunliu Zhao

27) Modeling of reactive ammonia uptake by secondary organic aerosol in CMAQ: application to continental US
Shupeng Zhu

Regulatory Modeling and SIP Applications
28) Highlights from Multiple Recent Studies of Modeling Single Source O3 and Secondary PM2.5 Impacts
Kirk Baker

29) What have we learned A review of novel data assimilation techniques for source apportionment
Cesunica Ivey

30) The sensitivity of surface ozone concentration to geographically-distributed VOC and NOx emissions over Kao-Ping air basin in Taiwan
Ciao-Kai Liang

31) Elevated Ozone Along the Coastline of Lake Michigan
Jenny Liljegren

32) Speciated Source Apportionment of PM2.5 using Positive Matrix Factorization
C.R.Lonsdale

33) Modified BART Analysis Methodology for the Regional Haze Rule
Neelesh Sule

October 24, 2017

 Grumman Auditorium Dogwood Room
7:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM A/V Upload A/V Upload
 

Model Development

Chaired by Deborah Luecken and Benjamin Murphy, US EPA

Emissions Inventories, Models, and Processes

Chaired by BH Baek (UNC-CH) and Jeff Vukovich (US EPA)
8:30 AM Characterization of CMAQv5.2: Science Processes, Performance, and Development
Ben Murphy 		Development of a Year 2016 Emissions Modeling Platform
Alison Eyth
8:50 AM Enabling sensitivity analysis in CMAQ with the complex-step approach
Shannon Capps 		Computational Enhancement Approach in Mobile Emissions Simulation: Parameterization of MOVES Emission Factors Lookup Tables
BH Baek
9:10 AM Satellite Cloud Assimilation - The Impact of Improved Cloud Fields on 2013 Air Quality Simulations
Arastoo Pour Biazar 		The Load of Lightning-induced Nitrogen Oxides and Its Impact on the Ground-level Ozone during Summertime over the Mountain West States
Daiwen Kang
9:30 AM Advanced Land Surface Processes in the Coupled WRF/CMAQ with MODIS Input
Limei Ran 		Effect of top-down emission adjustment using OMI NO2 and HCHO column densities in South Korean air quality simulation
Changhan Bae
9:50 AM Break Break
10:20 AM Mechanistic representation of Soil N in CMAQ v5.1
Quazi Ziaur Rasool 		Impact on Recent North American AQ Forecasts of Replacing a Retrospective U.S. Emissions Inventory with a Projected Inventory
Mike Moran
10:40 AM Advances the National Air Quality Forecast Capability predictions
Ivanka Stajner 		Impact of a Major Update to VOC Emissions Processing on Regional Air Quality Model Predictions
Mike Moran
11:00 AM AQcast: A Scalable, Automated System for Photochemical Modeling on the Amazon Cloud
Matthew Alvarado 		The leaf enclosure measurement for emission factors of Marijuana
Chi-Tsan Wang
11:20 AM Development of the Next Generation Air Quality Modeling System
Jonathan Pleim 		Modeling crop residue burning experiments and assessing the fire impacts on air quality
Luxi Zhou
11:40 AM Aerosol's Direct Feedback Effects in the U.S. using a Two-Way Coupled WRF-CMAQ Model driven by MEYYA - a global reanalysis dataset
Chowdhury Moniruzzaman 		Implications of emission inventory choice for modeling fire-related pollution in the U.S.
Shannon N. Koplitz
12:00 PM Lunch in Trillium
 

Air Quality, Climate and Energy

Chaired by Jason West (UNC) and Eladio Knipping (EPRI)

Modeling to Support Exposure and Health Studies and Community-scale Applications

Chaired by Ted Russell, Georgia Tech
1:00 PM Development and validation of a rapid urban scale dispersion modelling platform
Dr Scott Hamilton 		Emission Control Benefits of Lowering Ambient PM Exposure in Canada and the U.S.: Application of CMAQ-Adjoint for Aerosols
Amir Hakami
1:20 PM Air quality impacts of projections of natural gas-fired distributed generation
Eladio Knipping 		Multi-Year (2013-2016) North American Population Exposure to PM2.5 Emissions from Wildfires Estimated from Operational Air Quality Forecasts
Mike Moran
1:40 PM Assessing the Combustion Performance, Emissions, and Air Quality (AQ) Impacts of Renewable Fuel Blending in the Natural Gas System in California
Michael MacKinnon 		Regional Air Quality Modeling of Wildfires for Health Assessments over the Continental United States
Cesunica Ivey
2:00 PM Estimates of the Marginal Cost of NOX and PM2.5 Emissions Reductions from U.S. Manufacturing from 1990 to 2014 with Projections to 2025
Alexander Macpherson 		Significantly reduced health burden from ambient air pollution in the United States under emission reductions from 1990 to 2010
Yuqiang Zhang
2:20 PM Break Break
2:50 PM Projecting state-level air pollutant emissions using an integrated assessment model: GCAM-USA
Wenjing Shi 		HiRes-X: Scientific and Geographic Extension of an Operational, High Resolution Air Quality Modeling System Providing Smoke Impact Forecasts for Health Protection, Ecosystem Management and Economic Development
Yongtao Hu
3:10 PM Source-specific estimation of air quality co-benefits of CO2 reductions: a multi-country analysis
Amir Hakami 		Spatiotemporal estimates of surface PM2.5 concentrations in the western U.S. using NASA MODIS retrievals and data assimilation techniques
S. Marcela Loria-Salazar
3:30 PM Estimating Environmental Co-benefits of U.S. CO2 Reduction Pathways Using the GCAM-USA Integrated Assessment Model
Yang Ou 		Characterizing spatial variability of air pollution from vehicle traffic around the Houston Ship Channel area and potential associations with obesity in a Mexican-American Cohort
Xueying Zhang
3:50 PM Break Break
4:00 PM
Introduction to posters
  
4:45 PM

Poster Session 2
5:30 - 7:30 PM

Reception

 

Poster Session 2 listing:



Air Quality, Climate and Energy
1) Understanding How Aircraft Emissions Lead to the Formation of Air Pollutants
Calvin Arter

2) Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Commercial Fuels and Single Component Aromatics: Comparison of Results from Chamber Experiments with Box Model Predictions under Varying Environmental Conditions
Jeff K. Bean

3) Contribution of Long-range Transport to Winter Haze in Northern China
XINYI DONG

4) Health benefits of decreases in PM2.5 and Ozone in the United States from 1998 to 2016
Omar Nawaz

5) Modeling the Impact of Cookstove Use on Ambient Aerosol in Rural India
Brigitte Rooney

Global/Regional Modeling Applications
6) Evaluating Source Attributions using the CMAQ-DDM method for ozone during the T-COPS eastern Washington field campaign
Mahshid Etesamifard

7) Synchronous evaluation of source apportionments for ambient concentration and deposition of sulfate in East Asia
Syuichi Itahashi

8) Variation and Sensitivity of Regional Emissions Contributions to Particulate Matter Concentration in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea
Eunhye Kim

9) Dynamical downscaling of meteorology from a global model by WRF towards resolving US PM2.5 distributions for the mid 21st century
Surendra Kunwar

10) Modeling of the Foehn effect in the north coast off Colombia.South America.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Castilla

11) Ozone results of the Model Intercomparison Study in the Asia (MICS-Asia) Phase III
Cheng-En Yang

12) Modeling the impacts of green infrastructure land use changes on air quality and meteorologycase study and sensitivity analysis in Kansas City
Yuqiang Zhang

13) Drought Impacts on Secondary Organic Aerosol, a Case Study in the Southeast United States
Zijian Zhao

Model Evaluation and Analysis
14) Overview of the Model and ObservatioN Evaluation Tool (MONET) version 1.0 for evaluating chemical transport models
Barry Baker

15) Using California Field Studies as a Platform for Model Evaluation
Kirk Baker

16) CMAQ PERFORMANCE WITH PORTLAND AND INTEL COMPILERS
George Delic

17) Meteorological factor analyses of NOAA NAQFC surface ozone predictions' biases and improvement with a bias correction approach
Jianping Huang

18) Estimation of primary and secondary PM2.5 in CONUS using standard CMAQ with post-processing tools
Joey Huang

19) Evaluation of differences in ozone concentration between chemical mechanisms of CMAQ in Japan
Kyo Kitayama

20) Dynamic evaluation of two decades of WRF-CMAQ ozone simulations over the contiguous United States
Huiying Luo

21) Evaluating Isoprene Oxidation Mechanisms in Regional Models Using In Situ Observations of Formaldehyde
Margaret R. Marvin

22) Contribution of on-road mobile sources to SOA formation in Bogota: A sensitivity analysis coupling WRF-Chem and the traffic model VISUM
Perez-Pena, Maria Paula

23) Regional Differences in 2012 CONUS Model Performance: An AMET Case Study
Thuy Phi

24) PM2.5 concentrations observed and modeled for the 2016 southern Appalachian wildfire event
Tom Pierce

25) Multiple-Year Application and Evaluation of Two-Way Coupled WRF-CMAQ with Aerosol Direct and Indirect Effects over the Continental U.S.
Kai Wang

Modeling to Support Exposure and Health Studies and Community-scale Applications
26) Estimating Oxidative Potential of PM2.5 across the Eastern United States Using an Advanced CMAQ-DDM/CMB Hybrid Method
Josephine Bates

27) A satellite-dispersion modeling system to generate high-resolution downscaled PM2.5 fields
Frank Freedman

28) Back-trajectory modeling of high time-resolution air measurement data to separate nearby sources
Gayle Hagler

Urban-scale Database and Fine Scale Modeling Advancements and Applications
29) Development of Two Model Fusion Techniques Utilizing CMAQ and R-LINE to Obtain NOx, CO and PM2.5 Concentrations at 250m Resolution over Atlanta, GA
Josephine Bates

30) Influence of ozone urban background on nitrogen dioxide concentration near roadway sources in Barcelona city (Spain)
Jaime Benavides

31) Investigate the air pollution problem in mountain area of Taiwan using fine scale air quality simulation
Fang-Yi Cheng

32) WUDAPT-based urban-WRF and HYSPLIT-STILT modeling of San Jose, California: Developments to support case study applications for urban air pollution and heat islands.
Frank Freedman

33) Adaptation of Meteorology and R-LINE to Street Canyon Micro-Climates: Application in Barcelona City Spain
Michelle Snyder

October 25, 2017

 Grumman Auditorium Dogwood Room
7:30 AMRegistration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM A/V Upload A/V Upload
 

Urban-scale Database and Fine Scale Modeling Advancements and Applications

Chaired by Prakash Karamchandani (Ramboll, Inc.) and Vlad Isakov (US EPA)

Remote Sensing and Measurements

Chaired by Roger Timmis, Environmental Agency UK
8:30 AM WRF urban-scale modeling with WUDAPT
Jason Ching 		Examining Changes in Ozone over the Western United States via Assimilation of Satellite Ozone Products in a Chemistry-Transport Model
Greg Osterman
8:50 AM Integrating regional and local modelling to create a high-resolution air quality forecasting system for Hong Kong
Christina Hood 		Burn Area Comparisons between Prescribed Burning Permits in Southeastern USA and two Satellite-derived Products
Ran Huang
9:10 AM CALIOPE-urban: coupling R-LINE with CMAQ for urban air quality forecasts over Barcelona
Jaime Benavides 		A Novel Approach for Identifying Dust Storms with Hourly Surface Air Monitors in the Western United States
Barry Baker
9:30 AM Photochemical Modeling of Industrial Flare Plumes using SCICHEM
Prakash Karamchandani 		Investigation of the Atmospheric Conditions Governing the Relationship between Aerosol Optical Depth and Surface PM2.5 Concentrations in the Western U.S.
S. Marcela Loria-Salazar
9:50 AM Impact of grid resolution on health burdens from air pollution modelled with CMAQ-Adjoint
Amir Hakami 		Lightning NOx estimates from space-based lightning imagers
William Koshak
10:10 AM Break Break
10:40 AM

Developer/User's Meeting. Topic: Model Inter-comparison
12:00 PMLunch in Trillium
 

Model Evaluation and Analysis

Chaired by Mike Moran (Environment Canada) and Arastoo Pour Biazar (University of Alabama, Huntsville)

Global/Regional Modeling Applications

Chaired by Jeff McQueen (NOAA) and Chris Nolte (US EPA)
1:00 PM An air quality impact study for the recent increase in oil and gas activity over the Conterminous U.S.
Pius Lee 		Improving boundary conditions for regional models to address over-prediction of ozone influx from the Gulf of Mexico
Ou Nopmongcol
1:20 PM Evaluation of the NOAA NAM-CMAQ predictions for recent air quality episodes
Jeff McQueen 		Comparing Methods for Tracking Large-Scale Ozone Background in Continental-Scale CMAQ Applications
Peng Liu
1:40 PM What factors contribute to O3 overestimation by the CMAQ Model in the Great Lakes Region
Momei Qin 		Impact of Chemical Lateral Boundary Conditions (LBC) from GEOS-5 Global Chemical Transport Model Compared to the Operational NGAC LBC
Youhua Tang
2:00 PM Measurements and Modeling of Turbulent Fluxes during Persistent Cold Air Pool Events in Salt Lake Valley, Utah
Xia Sun 		2017 Projections and Interstate Transport of Ozone in Southeastern U.S.
Talat Odman
2:20 PM Evaluation and intercomparison of five dry deposition algorithms in North America
Zhiyong Wu 		 
2:40 PM The Performance Evaluation of Lightning-NO Algorithms in CMAQ
Daiwen Kang 		Estimating the Tipping Point of Urban NOx Control in Two Major U.S. Cities
Angele Genereux
3:00 PM Break Break
3:30 PM Effects of interactions between meteorology and ambient pollutants on simulated air quality over metropolitan regions in Japan
Satoru Chatani 		Tracking Chemical History of Pollutant Plumes in East Asia using HYSPLIT-CMAQ Tool during the 2015 MAPS-Seoul Campaign
Hyun Cheol Kim
3:50 PM   Examining Projected Changes in Climate and Ozone at 2050 and 2090 under Two Climate Scenarios
Chris Nolte
4:10 PM Development of a Standalone Data Fusion Tool for Spatially and Temporally Fused Monitoring and Model Data
Carey Jang 		Projections of atmospheric nutrient deposition to the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Patrick Campbell
4:30 PM Whats new in the Atmospheric Model Evaluation Tool (AMET) version 1.3
K. Wyat Appel 		Estimating the Sources of Black Carbon Deposition to the Himalayan Glaciers in Current and Future Climates through Dynamical Downscaling
Matthew J. Alvarado