NWAQ/NRMC Quarterly Meeting – 2020 October 1

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

9:00Introductions
9:10WorkGroup Updates
— Emissions Inventories (Farren L. Herron-Thorpe, WECY)
— Wildfire Modeling (Farren L. Herron-Thorpe, WECY)
— Model Evaluation (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
— Small Air Monitoring Sensors (Von Walden, WSU)
— Training and Education (Nicole Briggs, EPA)
9:30Von Walden, WSU – Health effects of regional PM2.5: A brief overview of WSU
research projects
9:55Mahshid Etesamifard, WSU – Puget Sound Ports Air Quality Study
10:20BREAK
10:30Colleen Miller, UW – Purple Air corrections for different aerosol types (smoke,
dust and urban)
10:45Dan Jaffe, UW – Indoor Air Quality during Smoke-apocalypse 2020
10:55Xinxin Ye, UCLA – Evaluation of wildfire smoke forecasts by multiple models for
the Williams Flats Fire 2019
11:20Kimi Smith, Idaho DEQ – Statistical analysis of AIRPACT ozone forecasts in the
Treasure Valley of southwest Idaho
11:35Joe Vaughan, WSU – AIRPACT-5 / AIRPACT-6 updates
12:00Wrap up

NRMC Meeting, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, PDT

1:00Introductions
1:10System Status and Development (Cliff Mass, UW)
— Model performance for current system
— Hardware replacements/upgrades
— Progress on the new 4 km ensemble system
— Work planned for October – February
— Storage/ RAID
1:40Potential Database Extraction Interface, Discussion (Jay McAlpine, All)
2:00USGS Puget Sound Coastal Storm Modeling System – (30 min, Eric Grossman, USGS)
2:30Wrap up