AIRPACT-3 status and near-term objectives Joe Vaughan Brian Lamb Jeremy Avise Jack Chen Matt Porter Li Wang
AIRPACT-3 status and near-term objectives
Joe Vaughan
Brian Lamb
Jeremy Avise
Jack Chen
Matt Porter
Li Wang
Outline:
Status:– Reliability– Dairy Ammonia emissions– BlueSky wildfire emissions (PM2.5 & CO)– (Adjusted Mozart Boundary conditions)– (QuickLook Verification) – Off-line & selective Hg modeling– Dec 2005 PM2.5 Analysis
Near-Term Objectives and work in progress
• Convert rainier AIRPACT operations to new Linux box
• Re & Development of web sites• WEPS integration• Aug-Nov 2004 Evaluation (& Pathfinding)• Push Forecasts out to 48 or 72 hrs?• Nest to higher resolution sub-domains?
Who’s working on what
• Re & Development of web sites: Jennifer Hinds• Hg, N, S deposition (RGI): Matt Porter• Wind Erosion Prediction System: Li Wang• AIRPACT-3(+) evaluation for 2004 Jack Chen• Conversion to new linux system: Joe Vaughan• Satellite data retrieval: Farren Thorpe• Wildfire emissions: Jeremy Avise and
Jack Chen
Reliability
– November 2006?• Only Nov 26 run CMAQ failed to complete• Failsafe’s operation ran successfully for retrieving EPA
CMAQ results• Only to fail on disk space in graphics generation…
– CMAQ and forecast graphics generally complete by 4 AM.
Dairy NH3 Emission Module
WA Dairy NH3 (ton/yr)
Housing 8,634
Storage 5,441
Application 4,364
Total 18,439
OR Dairy NH3 (ton/yr)
Housing 9,469
Storage 5,079
Application 3,420
Total 17,967
BlueSky/AIRPACT-3 Wildfire Smoke Modeling
MODIS Image for Sept 5 2006
BlueSky System at Forest Service
Observed Fire Events
AIRPACT retrieves: fire
location, fire size, heat flux, emissions
Predicted 24-hr PM2.5 for Aug. 2006
WSU Pullman
Hourly CTM vs Obs PM25Pullman, WA, 2006
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OBS_PM25 (24hrAvg)Pullman, Sept, 2006
5x5 GRID CELL MATRIX CENTERED AROUND SWAN RANCH (NTS)
Maximum Total_HG Wet Deposition May 18, 2006, 1600 PST
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AIRPACT-3 MAX (OVER 5X5 MATRIX) MERCURY WET AND DRY DEPOSITION MAY 18, 2006 AT SWAN RANCH
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EVALUATION OF THE AIRPACT-3 AIR QUALITY FORECAST SYSTEM FOR A WINTERTIME PM2.5 EPISODE
ByALICIA K. TONEY
Parameter mean bias mean absolute error Temperature (deg C) -0.5 2.1 Wind Speed (m/s) -0.6 1.2 Wind Direction (DEG) 12 70
EVALUATION OF THE AIRPACT-3 AIR QUALITY FORECAST SYSTEM FOR A WINTERTIME PM2.5 EPISODE
ByALICIA K. TONEY
Site AVERAGE of
PREDICTED 24-hr running-means
AVERAGE of OBSERVED
24-hr running-mean
Gross bias
Fract Bias (%)
Lacey 5.8 20.2 -14.4 -28
Tacoma 11.8 25.6 -13.8 -21
Lynnwood 16.6 18.2 -1.6 -8
Wenatchee 3.2 17.7 -14.5 -40
Marysville 4.1 19.6 -15.5 -33
Bothell 22.4 18.8 3.6 7
Spokane 7.5 20.3 -12.8 -23
Kent 18.4 19.5 -1.1 -0
Ellensburg 10.6 15.3 -4.7 -10
North Bend 1.1 8.5 -7.4 -38
Seattle 15.7 10.2 5.5 7
Overall 10 17.7 -7 -16
EVALUATION OF THE AIRPACT-3 AIR QUALITY FORECAST SYSTEM FOR A WINTERTIME PM2.5 EPISODE
Lynnwood
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Kent
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Moving rainier operations to new linux box
• Rainier is (1990s era) DEC-Compaq-HP alpha-based w/ Unix
• New box is AMD w/ Debian Linux• Issues:
– compiler switches – routine name ‘mangling’ – library creation– path changes
– testing
Re & Development of Web Sites
• WSU Publication’s Content Mgmt System• Putting web authoring control in LAR• Strategy --
– Shorten cycle for updating project contents.– Standardize web code/technology across projects. – Get standard content in place, then
– Focus on data graphics generation, tools, and downloads.
WEPS-AIRPACT-3 Databases DevelopmentWEPS-AIRPACT-3 Databases DevelopmentGuanglong Feng and Li Wang Guanglong Feng and Li Wang
Land Use &Soil Management
Evaluation of AIRPACT-3+ for Aug –– Nov 2004 reruns
by Jack Chen
MCIP v3.1 at 21 layersCMAQ v4.6
Aerosol v4 w/ Sea saltPathfinder for next upgrades for AIRPACT-3,
to be implemented once running on new Linux box.
8-Hr Daily Max O3 Paired by Site/Time
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8-Hour Ozone Daily Maximum (EPA AQS Sites) Num of Points 1855
MB 6.5
ME 9.2
NB 25%
NE 30%
NMB 18%
NME 25%
FB 19%
FE 25%
RMSE 11.2
R 0.6
CTMMAX 87.1
CTMAVG 41.9
OBSMAX 78.8
OBSAVG 36.6
8-Hr Daily Max O3 Paired by Site/Time
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121086420Hour Difference Between Observed and Measured O3 Peak Time (hour)
Data Paired by Site and Date
Number of Data Points: 2265
IMPROVE / EPA-AQS PM StationsAug – Nov 2004
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2004
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Fractional BiasBy Site and PM Species for Sep – Nov
2004
-2.0
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