NWAQ/NRMC Quarterly Meeting – 2019 October 3

NW-AIRQUEST Meeting, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, PDT

9:00Introductions and meeting logistics
9:10WorkGroup 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)
9:30Progress and status on tasks in NW-AIRQUEST contract (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
9:50WRF-Chem-urban modeling work update (Ana Carla Fernandez, WSU)
10:10WRF-Chem evaluation work during Sep 2017 (Amit Sharma, WSU)
10:30BREAK
10:45Performance of Ozone Forecasting Using Machine Learning Methods Over this Summer (Kai Fan, WSU)
11:15Special Purple Air network in Alaska to monitor wildfire smoke (Dr. Jingqiu Mao and/or Julia Hnilicka, University of Alaska)
11:45Discuss Charter Activities and EPA Changes (All)
11:55Wrap up

NRMC Meeting, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, PDT

1:00Introductions (Rob Elleman, EPA)
1:10Selection of new NRMC Chair (Rob Elleman, EPA)
1:30Review of NRMC Charter and Discussion of Strategy to Update (Rob Elleman, EPA)
2:00System Status and Development (Cliff Mass, UW)
— Model performance for current system
— Progress on the new 4 km ensemble system
— Work planned for October — February