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Air Quality
A Working Group in Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer Models

 

Group Leader: Serge Guillas

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Meeting Time: Tuesday 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Location: NISS building, Room 203

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Meeting Activities

Date Topics & Readings Notes
 Sept. 26, 2006
Introduction, and open discussion of individual research interests
We mainly discussed the calibration and correction of CMAQ.
SmartBoard PDF summary

 Oct 3, 2006 Introduction, and open discussion of individual research interests, continued.
Sensitivity runs of CMAQ for calibration
Discussion of test-bed data collections:
CMAQ, RAQAST, MOZART
Discussion of exposure studies (Chris)
Discussion of post-processing & downscaling.
SmartBoard PDF summary
 Oct 10, 2006  No meeting
Suggested reading about calibration:
Bayarri et al. (2002)
See also the methodology webpage for further readings.
 Oct 17, 2006  No meeting (CMAS conference)
 
 Oct 24, 2006
 Calibration for spatial and spatio-temporal model ouputs (Fei Liu)
 
 Oct 31, 2006  Y. Wang (Georgia Tech): Presentation of an air quality model: RAQAST
 
 Nov 7, 2006
 No meeting
 Engineering meeting and methodology
 Nov 14, 2006
 Meeting at NCAR (see climate working group)
 
 Nov 21, 2006
 No meeting (Thanksgiving week)
 
 Nov 28, 2006
 Downscaling techniques for Air Quality models (Serge Guillas)
 
Dec 5, 2006
Dana Draghicescu (CUNY-Hunter College): Modeling and prediction of probability distribution functions and quantiles for space-time environmental processes


Group Members

Name Affiliation Email Address
Howard Bondell N.C. State bondell (at) stat.ncsu.edu
Kristen Foley N.C. State kmfoley (at) ncsu.edu
Montse Fuentes N.C. State fuentes (at) stat.ncsu.edu
Serge Guillas Georgia Tech/SAMSI guillas (at) math.gatech.edu
David Holland EPA holland.david (at) epa.gov
Daiwen Kang EPA kang.daiwen (at) epa.gov
Fei Liu Duke fei (at) stat.duke.edu
Chunsheng Ma Wichita State/SAMSI cma (at) stat.ncsu.edu
John McHenry Baron/NCSU john.mchenry (at) baronams.com
Chris Paciorek Harvard School of Public Health paciorek (at) hsph.harvard.edu
Brian Reich N.C. State reich (at) stat.ncsu.edu
Steve Sain NCAR ssain (at) ucar.edu
Jenise Swall EPA swall.jenise (at) epa.gov
     
     

 

 

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