Emissions modeling for SMRAQ: a seasonal and regional example using smoke

摘要

The Seasonal Model for Regional Air Quality (SMRAQ) project is an effort to model ozone formation and transport from mid-May to mid-September in 1995 for the Eastern two-thirds of the continental United States. The modeling grid is 48 columns by 50 rows at a 54 kilometer resolution. The models used for the project are the Multiscale Air Quality SImulation Platform (MAQSIP) for ozone chemistry and transport, MM5 for meteorology, and the Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions (SMOKE) modeling system for emissions. The emissions inventory was derived from the Ozone Transport Assessment Group (OTAG) inventory for 1995.