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UIOWA, NCAR, GMAO, NRL Chemical forecasts for Aug 14th flights
13 Aug 2013Compiled by Mary Barth and Pablo Saide,
Arlindo da Silva, David Peterson , contributions from all groups
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Fires: locations and CO-fire tracers
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QFED2 LOCATIONS
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NASA NNR AOD composite yesterday
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MASSINGAR SMOKE AODMACC SMOKE AOD
NAAPS AOD GEOS-5 SMOKE AOD
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AOD 18 UTC
Idaho fire smoke is coming to SEUS
Tracers and AOD showing Idaho fire influence on a streamer
GMAO – GEOS5 forecast has high AOD assimilated
WRF-Chem assimilates AOD but it did not get the high AOD product
CO fire 700mb BB 18 UTCGMAO-GEOS5
CO fire 700mb BB 18 UTCWRF-Chem
Organic Carbon AOD 18 UTC
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Isoprene tracer for midday Wednesday is >5 ppb at 925mb and >1ppb at 850mb over Mississippi and Ozarks; less isoprene in AL
Anthropogenic NO tracer has same pattern
Isoprene 925mb 18 UTC WRF-Chem
MOZART 0.5deg Isoprene tracer (2-day lifetime)
MOZART 0.5deg Anthro-NOx tracer (2-day lifetime)
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Birmingham plume is going southward then eastward (same with Atlanta)
- some of the plume gets lofted
Total CO 925mb 18 UTC
Atlanta plume
Birmingham plume
Centreville
Flexpart trajectory from Birmingham
WRF-Chem
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Q_CLOUD
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North American Monsoon
Age of WRF PBL tracer at 12 km
Age of WRF Stratosphere tracer at 12 km
> 36 hours old< 18 hours old
Total CO 150mb 18 UTC
> 90 ppb CO
WRF-Chem
NASA/GMAO – GEOS5
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Q_CLOUD
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Summary
• Urban plumes are south of cities• High isoprene seen throughout region except
over Mingo Aeronet site• Likely smoke streamer near TN-AL border
• PBL air in upper troposphere over east Texas