STAR Global Change and Air Quality
Through the EPA STAR Global Change and Air Quality
project, we have developed a modeling program to assess
global change impact on U.S. air quality by addressing
the following questions:
- How does global warming affect air quality on
regional and urban scales? Directly through warmer
temperatures? Indirectly through changes in circulation
patterns and changes in land cover?
- How does land use change due to increased
urbanization, global warming, or intentional management
(economic forces) affect air quality?
- How do fire and fire management affect regional air
quality and regional haze in the future?
- What is the role of Asian emissions on US air
quality and how does global change influence the impact
of Asian emissions?
- How sensitive is predicted air quality to globally
forced boundary conditions (meteorological and
chemical)?
- How sensitive are air quality simulations to
changes in emission scenarios, both biogenic and
anthropogenic?
- How sensitive are air quality simulations to
uncertainties associated with wildfire projections and
with land management scenarios?
Document Downloads:
Mar 6, 2008: Final Report to EPA
- "Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Air
Quality using Multi-scale Modeling with the
MM5/SMOKE/CMAQ System"
Oct 5, 2007: Project Kick-off Meeting
Agenda - "Ensemble Modeling of Global
Change and the Effects on US Air Quality"
May 4, 2007: Short-Term
Air Quality Forecasts for the Pacific Northwest and
Long-Range Global Change Predictions for the U.S. -
Jack Chen (WSU), PhD defense.
[PowerPoint, 4.9MB]
Feb 19, 2007: Multi-Scale
Modeling of the Effects of Global Change upon Regional
Air Quality [PowerPoint, 5MB]
Nov 13, 2006: Annual
Report [PDF, 1MB]
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