post-processing air quality model predictions of fine particulate matter (pm2.5) at ncep james...
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Post-processing air quality model predictions of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at NCEP
James Wilczak, Irina Djalalova, Dave Allured (ESRL)Jianping Huang, Ivanka Stajner, Jeff McQueen (NWS)Luca Delle Monache (NCAR)
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Why is it difficult to predict PM2.5 accurately?PM2.5 concentration forecasts depend on initial concentrations, emissions, chemical reactions, and weather conditions.• Initial conditions are known well only at a relatively few surface observing sites.
Limited satellite information (forest fires and dust storms).• Emissions are poorly known: based on inventories several years old, and are
allocated by month and by day of the week and according to specified diurnal profiles (except for forest fires and dust).
• Uncertainty in chemical transformations.• Weather forecast uncertainty.
What is PM2.5, and why is it important?Particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter.Health impacts: 65,000-130,000 premature deaths/year in US (American Lung Association1)
1http://www.lung.org/assets/documents/advocacy-archive/epa-proposed-particle-soot-standard-technical.pdf
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NCEP PM2.5 Forecast System• CMAQ (Community Multi-scale Air Quality modeling system), regional chemical model• NAM (NMM-B) meteorological model• NEI static emissions inventory• Forest fire emissions from NESDIS satellite fire detection with US Forest Service emission
estimates.• Global chemical prediction model -> monthly mean lateral boundary conditions; daily dust• Initial conditions from previous forecast; no chemical data assimilation
PM2.5 verification at ~600 EPA AIRNow sites
EPA PM2.5 violation thresholds• 15 micrograms/m3 annual average• 35 micrograms/m3 24-hour average
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• Significant seasonal biases ─ over-prediction in winter─ under-prediction in summer
• Sources of biases- Emissions?- Meteorological forcing?- Chemical transformations?
Over-prediction in winter has improved Under-prediction in summer is unchanged
7 years of CMAQ PM2.5 biases
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Analog BiasCorrection
New Forecast
New ForecastNew BC Prediction
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Post-processing sensitivity to search variables
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Systematic and Unsystematic RMSE Improvements
PM2.5 Error Histogram
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CONUS averaged hourly values of PM2.5 for November 2010
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Monthly MAE and Correlation AN Improvements for 2010
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• Iterative objective analysis scheme based on the work of Glahn et al. (2012)• 8-pass Gaussian scheme• Radius of influence: 2000 km, 1000 km, 500 km, 250 km, 125 km, 62 km, 31
km, 15 km
𝐺𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑗(𝑚+1)=1𝑁𝑘
∑𝑑𝑘<𝑅
𝑅∗𝑅−𝑑𝑘∗𝑑𝑘
𝑅∗𝑅+𝑑𝑘∗𝑑𝑘(𝑆𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑘−𝐺𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑗𝑚 )+𝐺𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑗𝑚
2000km radius 500km radius 15km radius
Spreading of point corrections to model grid
h𝑤 𝑒𝑟𝑒𝐺=𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑑 ,𝑆=𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 ,𝑆𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑘=𝐴𝑁𝑘−𝐶𝑀𝐴𝑄𝑘 ,𝑑=𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 ,𝑅=𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑠𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒❑
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NCEP tests for winter month (Jan/2015)
Mean DiurnalCycle
Daily VariationValid at 04 UTC
EUS
EUS
WUS
WUS
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NCEP tests for winter month (cont.)
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WUSEUS
RSME
Raw CMAQ AN Corrected
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NCEP tests for summer month (Jul/2015)
Mean DiurnalCycle
Daily VariationValid at 04 UTC
EUS
EUS
WUS
WUS
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NCEP tests for summer month (cont)
Categorical Forecast Evaluation: Critical Success Index
AN corrected forecasts using 3 different training period lengths and numbers of analogs
operational
parallel
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Current Status and Future Plans
AN scheme is in developmental testing at NCEP with limited dissemination to a select users/evaluation group.
Pending evaluation results, AN bias correction for PM2.5 forecast guidance is planned to be released to the public later in this fiscal year.
Development of post-processing techniques will continue, with research focusing on:• KFAN implementation• parallelization of post-processing code• regional optimization of analog searches• better treatment of forest fire episodes