NWAQ/NRMC Quarterly Meeting – 2019 October 3
NW-AIRQUEST Meeting, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, PDT
9:00 | Introductions and meeting logistics |
9:10 | WorkGroup Updates — Emissions Inventories (Farren L. Herron-Thorpe, WECY) — Wildfire Modeling (Farren L. Herron-Thorpe, WECY) — Model Evaluation (Joe Vaughan, WSU) — Training and Education (Jacob Wolf, IDEQ) |
9:30 | Progress and status on tasks in NW-AIRQUEST contract (Joe Vaughan, WSU) |
9:50 | WRF-Chem-urban modeling work update (Ana Carla Fernandez, WSU) |
10:10 | WRF-Chem evaluation work during Sep 2017 (Amit Sharma, WSU) |
10:30 | BREAK |
10:45 | Performance of Ozone Forecasting Using Machine Learning Methods Over this Summer (Kai Fan, WSU) |
11:15 | Special Purple Air network in Alaska to monitor wildfire smoke (Dr. Jingqiu Mao and/or Julia Hnilicka, University of Alaska) |
11:45 | Discuss Charter Activities and EPA Changes (All) |
11:55 | Wrap up |
NRMC Meeting, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, PDT
1:00 | Introductions (Rob Elleman, EPA) |
1:10 | Selection of new NRMC Chair (Rob Elleman, EPA) |
1:30 | Review of NRMC Charter and Discussion of Strategy to Update (Rob Elleman, EPA) |
2:00 | System Status and Development (Cliff Mass, UW) — Model performance for current system — Progress on the new 4 km ensemble system — Work planned for October — February |