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East Texas Air Quality Forecasting for TexAQS II
| Project Period: | 07/01/2006 - 08/31/2007 |
| Total Budget: | $153,000 |
| Sub-Contractors: | The University of Houston - Daewon Byun
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This work plan lists the tasks to be performed by the University of Houston (UH) for providing air quality forecast for the Second Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS-II), 2006. TexAQS-II seeks to understand emissions and processes associated with the formation and transport of ozone and regional haze in Texas, with particular emphasis on the more populated eastern half of the state, roughly from Interstate 35 eastward. The various scientists involved with TexAQS-II have a broad range of goals and objectives.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in particular is interested in ensuring a successful field program and obtaining the necessary observational and modeling information to enable them to develop State Implementation Plans (SIPs) for particulate matter (PM) and 8-hour ozone and the development of their conceptual models. Accurate meteorological and photochemical model simulations are essential to these goals and objectives. Real-time meteorological and photochemical modeling are required for planning of daily field program operations, and provide information on the suitability of particular cases for future modeling activities. Real-time data assimilation creates gridded analysis that can be used to initialize forecasts and provide three-dimensional wind and other information for analysis of point measurements. This project will not only provide needed support for TexAQS-II and but also help to define what is the best practice for modeling 8-hour ozone by testing the various elements of an appropriate modeling strategy. The project tasks are divided into three major tasks based on their operational and research characteristics; (1) development and operation of the East Texas Air Quality (ETAQ) forecasting system, (2) development of ETAQ forecasting project (ETAQfp) interactive web access, and (3) development of a 4-dimensional variational system in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Through a separate project, Texas A&M (TAMU) will also provide high-resolution meteorological forecasts, what will also be used for providing an alternative air quality forecasting by the University of Houston.
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