Models-3 Users’ Models-3 Users’ Workshop Workshop Raleigh, North Raleigh, North Carolina Carolina October 21-23, October 21-23, 2002 2002 Recent Applications of Recent Applications of MM5, SMOKE, and CMAQ MM5, SMOKE, and CMAQ in Canada in Canada yne Boulton*, Mike Lepage, Xin Qiu, Martin Gauthier West Inc. (RWDI Group of Companies) h, Ontario, Canada
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Models-3 Users’ Models-3 Users’ WorkshopWorkshopRaleigh, North CarolinaRaleigh, North CarolinaOctober 21-23, 2002October 21-23, 2002
Recent Applications of Recent Applications of MM5, SMOKE, and CMAQMM5, SMOKE, and CMAQ
in Canadain Canada
J. Wayne Boulton*, Mike Lepage, Xin Qiu, Martin GauthierRWDI West Inc. (RWDI Group of Companies)Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Air Quality Air Quality ModellingModelling
MM5MM5 SMOKESMOKE
CMAQCMAQ
MMMM55Southern Ontario / Northeastern US
July 7 - 17, 1995 (NARSTO) 36,12, 4 km domains
Southern Ontario / Northeastern US July 13 - 17, 1999 36,12, 4 km domains
Southern Ontario, Quebec and Maritimes July 11 - 19, 1999 36 km (expanded domain)
Southern Alberta August 1 - 5, 1999 36,12, 4 km domains
MM5 MM5 (Cont’d)(Cont’d)
Pearl River Delta (Hong Kong and Southern China) 11 different episodes 1.5 km grid resolution over large domain sensitivity runs and quantitative analyses
Pacific Northwest IAQMP (ongoing) Pacific 2001 and winter 2003 episodes UBC running MC2 at 4 km grid spacing over
large, transboundary domain RWDI converting MC2 output for input to MCIP
MM5 MM5 (Cont’d)(Cont’d)Southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes
July 11 - 19, 1999
SMOKSMOKEESouthern Ontario / Northeastern US
July 13 - 17, 1999 36,12, 4 km domains for various applications:
Environment Canada City of Toronto Sithe Energies Canada Ltd.
Province of Alberta Dummy meteorological period 20 Spatial Surrogates developed on two map
projections: grid resolution = 0.05° Lon. by 0.025° Lat. grid resolution = 4 km
SMOKE (Cont’d)SMOKE (Cont’d)Spatial Surrogates for Alberta, Canada
SMOKE SMOKE (Cont’d)(Cont’d)
Canada West Emission Inventory Canadian 1995 CAC emission data Canadianised cross-reference files 13 spatial surrogates at 4 km grid spacing Developed “SMOKE-In” database utility / tool Developed “EI-View” data viewer
Pacific Northwest IAQMP (ongoing) Pacific 2001 and winter 2003 episodes Joint US / Canada emission inventory and
spatial surrogates at 4 km grid spacing Transboundary and forest fire emission
scenarios planned
SMOKE SMOKE (Cont’d)(Cont’d)SMOKE-In
Microsoft ACCESS Database Tool Import multiple Environment Canada NET and
SMOKE IDA files Query, sort, apply growth factors, QA/QC, etc. Export SMOKE IDA and EI-View data files