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Summer Ozone Concentrations In The Vicinity Of The Great Salt Lake, John Horel, Erik Crosman, Brian Blaylock, Seth Arens, Ansley Long, John Sohl, Randy S. Martin
Summer Ozone Concentrations In The Vicinity Of The Great Salt Lake, John Horel, Erik Crosman, Brian Blaylock, Seth Arens, Ansley Long, John Sohl, Randy S. Martin
Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications
Residents near the Great Salt Lake in northern Utah, USA have been exposed to ozone levels during recent summers exceeding the current United States National Ambient Air Quality Standard. Accurately forecasting those exceedances has been difficult as a result of the complex meteorological and photochemical processes fostering them. To help improve such forecasts, a low-cost field study was conducted during summer 2015 to provide comprehensive observations of boundary-layer ozone concentrations in the context of the prevailing meteorological conditions. A network of surface ozone sensors was supplemented by sensors mounted on vehicles, a public transit light-rail car, news helicopter, tethered sonde, …
Model Development Of Dust Emission And Heterogeneous Chemistry Within The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System And Its Application Over East Asia, Xinyi Dong, Joshua S. Fu, Kan Huang, Daniel Tong, Guoshun Zhuang
Model Development Of Dust Emission And Heterogeneous Chemistry Within The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System And Its Application Over East Asia, Xinyi Dong, Joshua S. Fu, Kan Huang, Daniel Tong, Guoshun Zhuang
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model has been further developed in terms of simulating natural wind-blown dust in this study, with a series of modifications aimed at improving the model's capability to predict the emission, transport, and chemical reactions of dust. The default parameterization of initial threshold friction velocity constants are revised to correct the double counting of the impact of soil moisture in CMAQ by the reanalysis of field experiment data; source-dependent speciation profiles for dust emission are derived based on local measurements for the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts in East Asia; and dust heterogeneous chemistry is also …