WEBINAR: Presenting the CMAQv5.2 Release

March 30, 2017. 2:00 PM (Eastern):

The meeting password is: cmas

Presenting the CMAQv5.2 Release

Presenters: Jon Pleim, Rohit Mathur, Wyat Appel, Ben Murphy

EPA’s Office of Research and Development, Computational Exposure Division will present the recent scientific and computational updates made by EPA to the Community Multi-Scale Air Quality Model (CMAQ). Topics to be covered include:

• Improvements to model process representation
  • Meteorology and connections to chemistry-transport calculations (land surface modeling, lightning assimilation)
  • Enabling consistent urban to hemispheric scale modeling
  • New chemical mechanisms and updates
  • Particulate matter composition and important emission sources
• Evaluation of model updates
• Ongoing research and development
• Model release process and the new CMAQ website