On the Use of MRF/AVN Global Information to Improve the Operational Air Quality Model OPANA |
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Authors: | R San José MA Rodríguez I Salas RM González |
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Institution: | (1) Environmental Software and Modelling Group, Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, (Spain);(2) Department of Geophysics and Meteorology, Faculty of Physics, Complutense University, Madrid, (Spain) |
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Abstract: | Operational air quality models have become an important tool to assist the decision makers in European Environmental Offices at different levels: cities, regional and state. Because of the important advance on computing capabilities during the last few years the possibility of incorporating the complex research and academic mesoscale air quality models under routine operational basis has become a reality. OPANA model is the operational version of the research model ANA (Atmospheric mesoscale Numerical pollution model for regional and urban Areas). This model is a limited area model (mesoscale beta) and the capability to extend the prediction horizon is limited unless proper boundary conditions are provided during long simulations. In this contribution we show how AVN/MRF (NOAA) vertical numerical meteorological soundings are incorporated to the OPANA system by using JAVA technology. This new feature helps to keep the air quality model into medium power workstations and the performance is improved accordingly. This technology avoids running mesoscale models over larger areas (continental scale) to accordingly increase the forecasting temporal horizon. |
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Keywords: | Eulerian mesoscale air quality AVN/MRF JAVA |
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