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

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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

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AVERAGE of OBSERVED

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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

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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

Landuse Management Database

BELD3 Dry Crop Type and Percentage

Developed and GriddedSoil Database

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.

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Number of Data Points: 2265

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Based on results of evaluations… should we…

Push forecasts out to 48 or 72 hrs?

Nest to higher resolution sub-domains?