Recent Updates to the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability Operational Model


Ivanka Stajner1, Jeffrey McQueen2, Pius Lee3, Jian-Ping Huang4,5, Ho-Chun Huang4,6, Youhua Tang7,8, Daniel Tong9,10, James M Wilczak11, Irina Djalalova12, David Allured13, Li Pan14, Ariel F Stein15 and Jose M Tirado16, (1)NOAA, National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (2)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA, Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)IMSG, College Park, United States, (5)NOAA, Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, National Weather Service, College Park, MD, United States, (6)National Centers for Environmental Prediction - Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (7)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (9)NOAA College Park, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, (10)CICS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (11)NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, United States, (12)CIRES and NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)CIRES and NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, United States, (14)SAIC/Lynker at NCEP/NWS/EMC/NOAA, College Park, United States, (15)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (16)Syneren Technologies and NOAA/NWS/STI, Silver Spring, MD, United States