Middle-East Air-Pollutant Climatology

by

J. SAFI0, M. Abu-Kubieh0, K. Rishmawi#, S. Kasakseh*# M. Luria+, E. Weinroth+*, E. Tas+, V. Matziev+, I. Levi+, J. Kaplan+

R. Bornstein*

*San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA ,+The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel#Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, Bethlehem, West Bank 0Environmental Protection & Research Institute, Gaza City, Gaza

Prepared for CLEAN AIR CONGRESS

LONDON, UK: AUG 2004

Acknowledgment

• Israel Ministry of Infrastructure • Israel Ministry of Environment • HUJI: H. Leshner, Prof. A. Danin,

Dr. R. Kadmon, I. levy• SJSU: T. Michaels, J. Wilkinson • Israel CBS: Dr. R. Shishinski,

S. Kats, O. Stone • INNPPA: Y.Magal, Y. Taober-

FUNDING: USAID/MERC PROGRAMFUNDING: USAID/MERC PROGRAM

OUTLINEOUTLINE• PROJECT OBJECTIVESPROJECT OBJECTIVES

• METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNSMETEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS

• EMISSION PATTERNSEMISSION PATTERNS

• CASE STUDIESCASE STUDIES– SFBA WINTER STORMS (LOZEJ 2000)SFBA WINTER STORMS (LOZEJ 2000)– ATLANTA THUNDERSTORMS (CRAIG 2002) ATLANTA THUNDERSTORMS (CRAIG 2002)

– LOS ANGELES 0LOS ANGELES 03 3 (Atmos Environ 2003a,b)(Atmos Environ 2003a,b)

– SFBA OSFBA O3 3 (this paper)(this paper)

– HOUSTON UHI AND OHOUSTON UHI AND O3 3 (this paper)(this paper)

– Mid-East OMid-East O3 3 (other papers here)(other papers here)

– NYC ER (just starting)NYC ER (just starting)

• CONCLUSIONSCONCLUSIONS

Specific objectives include:

(1) Install environmental monitoring sites

(2) Prepare of environmental databases

(3) Prepare a regional climatology

(4) Conduct field campaigns during periods conducive to poor regional air quality

(5) Apply RAMS & MM5 met models and (5) Apply RAMS & MM5 met models and CAMx photochemical air quality model to CAMx photochemical air quality model to increase understanding of current and increase understanding of current and future air quality problemsfuture air quality problems

ResultsResults show show

• spatial & temporal variations in met factors & air spatial & temporal variations in met factors & air quality concentrationsquality concentrations

• emission patterns also show temporal & spatial emission patterns also show temporal & spatial patterns that reflect land use patternspatterns that reflect land use patterns

• RAMS winds reproduce observed transport RAMS winds reproduce observed transport patternspatterns

• CAMx ozone fields reproduce transboundary CAMx ozone fields reproduce transboundary transport patterns observed by aircrafttransport patterns observed by aircraft

Topo map of study area

Future Plans:

GIS/RS tech will be used at Tel Aviv Univ, ARIJ, an EPRI to determine gridded fields of sfc characteristics (e.g., z0, ε, α, LU/LC) for input into uMM5 and CAMx  

Urbanized EPA MM5 meso-model (called uMM5xx) will simulate additional flow cases on the 106 CPU SJSU cluster

CAMx photochemical model will be run with current precursor emissions using output from the RAMS and uMM5xx simulations

 Planners at ARIJ, EPRI, and HUJI will identify future regional emission scenarios from projected population conditions during 2010 and 2020 (when regional populations will have doubled from present values) to be tested in CAMx

 CAMx simulations will evaluate environmental impacts from the projected emissions

FIRST CALL: ASAAQ2005

THE 2005 ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND AIR QUALITY CONF WILL BE HELD ON

27-29 APRIL 2005 IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA, USBA.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFO CAN BE FOUND AT THE AMERICAN METEOR-OLOGICAL SOCIETY WEB PAGE: AMETSOC.ORG OR

FROM BOB BORNSTEIN AT PBLMODEL@HOTMAIL.COM

OR FROM GREG CARMICHAEL AT GCARMICH@ENGINEERING.UIOWA.EDU