Regional Modeling Center Workshop Agenda

Wednesday, January 28 through Thursday, January 29, 2004

Mission Palms Hotel, Tempe, AZ

Purpose

The WRAP Modeling Forum is hosting a workshop provided by the Regional Modeling Center (RMC). The purposes of the workshop are:

Ø The RMC will review tools developed and analyses performed during 2003, and

Ø Representatives of the 5 RPOs will review and coordinate planned modeling inputs, deliverables, schedules, and technical approaches.

Wednesday – January 28th

8:00 Welcome/Agenda Review

8:15 1996 Modeling Results and Discussion

SAPRC99 vs. CB4

Fugitive Dust

9:45 Break

10:00 MM5 Modeling Protocol (Zion Wang, UCR)

Initial Evaluation Results and Discussion (Ralph Morris, ENVIRON)

11:00 SMOKE Emissions QA results using interim 2002 EI + Discussion (Zac Adelman, UNC)

12:00 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 CMAQ 2002 Preliminary Model Evaluation Results and Discussion Gail Tonnesen,UCR

(additional results at: http://www.cert.ucr.edu/aqm/308)

3:00 Break

3:15 2002 Source Apportionment/Sensitivity Runs (Gail Tonnesen, UCR)

5:00 Adjourn for the day

Thursday – January 29th

8:00 Overview of 2004 RMC Workplan

9:00 Review of Technical Approaches Used by each RPO

Questions to address in each 20-minute presentation:

Ø Modeling the same/similar inputs different ways + overlapping model domains

Ø Procedures/tools for model performance evaluation

Ø Treatment of boundary conditions

Ø Inter-RPO transport issues

Ø Expected differences in results for the same areas and time periods

RPO Presentations:

· CENRAP

· MANE-VU Regional Modeling Update (Gary Kleiman, NECAUM)

· VISTAS:

§ VISTAS Program (Pat Brewer)

§ Model Results (Jim Bolyan)

10:00 Break

10:15 Review of Technical Approaches Used by each RPO, continued

11:30 Lunch (on your own)

1:00 Coordination of the 5 RPOs’ Modeling Schedules and Deliverables

2:45 WRAP-up & Next Steps

3:00 Adjourn