4 th International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (IWAQFR)

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1 12-14 December 2012 Salle Obasi WMO Secretariat Geneva, Switzerland Agenda (11 Dec 2012) Wednesday 12 December Registration open from 8.00 Posters set up. Posters are displayed through the whole meeting. All oral presentations are 15 min including questions. Opening of Workshop (Chair: Liisa Jalkanen) WMO, Dr Deon Terblanche Environment Canada, Dr Veronique Bouchet COST representative, Prof Alexander Baklanov International Forecasting Perspectives (Co-chairs: Liisa Jalkanen and Chunhong Zhou) 9:25 Sylvie Gravel, Canada Status and perspectives of air quality forecasting in Canada 9:40 Tijian Wang, China Characteristics and prediction on urban and regional air quality in Yangtze River Delta of China 9:55 Alexander Baklanov, Denmark Online integrated meteorology-chemistry models for air quality forecasting (EuMetChem experience) 10:10 Marcelo Mena, Chile Recent developments in AQF in Santiago, Chile 10:25 Gufran Beig, India Developing AQF system for Indian Metropol Pune under WMO/GURME pilot project 10:40 11:10 Health Break 11:10 Takashi Maki, Japan The outline of air quality operational and research activities in the Japan Meteorological Agency 11:25 David Carruthers, UK The airtext operational forecasting system: model developments, model validation and public dissemination 11:40 Discussion

2 Lunch Break 12:00-13:30 Air Quality User Needs (Co-chairs Luisa Molina and Marcelo Mena) 13:30 Martin Cope, Australia Development of a smoke management emissions and transport modelling framework 13:45 Andrew Teakles, Canada The XM Tool project: the use of non-linear statistical models for AQF 14:00 Bill Murphey, USA Post-analysis of exceptional events using satellite data 14:15 Bheki Sibiya, South Africa The development of air quality modelling system at the South African Weather Service 14:30 Sam-Erik Walker, Norway Ensemble based probabilistic forecasting of air quality in Oslo and Rotterdam 14:45 Discussion Process Representations and Interactions with Meteorology (Co-chairs Alexander Baklanov and Sunling Gong) 15:00 Rostislav Kouznetsov, Finland An advanced scheme for dry deposition of aerosols in atmospheric transport models 15:15 Georg Grell, USA A stochastic convective parameterization for a smooth transition to cloud resolving scales that includes aerosol interactions with cloud microphysics 15:30 Aniko Rakai, Hungary Evaluation of microscale air quality modelling in idealized urban geometries with explicit building modelling 15:45 16:15 Health Break Announcement on break-out sessions 16:15-16:30 Greg Carmichael Poster Session I 16:30-18:00 A cash bar is available for participants for beverages Thursday 13 December Process Representations and Interactions with Meteorology (cont) (Co-chairs Alexander Baklanov and Sunling Gong) 09:00 Chunhong Zhou, China Multi-component aerosol activation and their impact on the cloud physics and precipitation in a heavy polluted episode

3 09:15 Wanmin Gong, Canada Coupling meteorology and chemistry in GEM-MACH 09:30 Eugene Genikhovich, Russian Federation Russian national system of air quality forecasting and managing: present status and perspectives Emissions Forecasting Developments (Co-chairs Gufran Beig and Martin Cope) 09:50 Swagata Payra, India Winter and summer time size segregated distribution of aerosols and optical properties over a site in Northwestern India 10:05 Marje Prank, Finland An operational system for forecasting the ragweed pollen release and dispersion in Europe 10:20 Roberto San Jose, Spain An operational forecasting system for wildland fires over Spain using WRF-FIRE (SFIRE) Health Break and Group Photo 10:35-11:05 11:05 Claire Granier, France Harmonization and evaluation of surface emissions at the global and regional scales and access to the datasets through the ECCAD database 11:20 Martin Steiner, Austria Development of a new high resolution emission data base for the SLO-AUT border region and applying it with WRF-chem simulations 11:35 Mike Moran, Canada Recent improvements to the representation of anthropogenic emissions in the Canadian operational AQF model (GEM-MACH) 11:50 Michael Sofiev, Finland Operational integrated system for wild-land fires IS4FIRES 12:05 Discussion Lunch 12:20-13:45 Model Evaluation and Post-processing (Co-chairs Veronique Bouchet and Mikhail Sofiev) 13:45 Sophie Cousineau, Canada Geospatial database development for Canadian operational AQF model evaluation 14:00 Jose Baldasano, Spain Evaluation of the AQF system CALIOPE in Spain for :15 Lucie Bonvalet, Belgium Validation of geostatic interpolation model by a measurement of particulate matter concentration campaign

4 14:30 Alessio D Allura, Italy An AQF network from regional to urban scale: analysis of recent episodes in Rome and discussion of development perspectives 14:45 Xavier Francis, UK Sensitivity of regional air quality to contributions from source emissions: a modelling study using WRF-CMAQ Poster Session II and Health Break 15:00-16:00 Break-out Sessions 16:00 to 17:30 (Subjects for discussion will be provided at the meeting) Friday 14 December Model Evaluation and Post-processing (cont) (Co-chairs Heinke Schluenzen and Roberto San Jose) 9:00 Mari Kauhaniemi, Finland An operational urban scale AQF system: systematic evaluation and research needs 9:15 Pius Lee, USA High spatial resolution AQF capability for limited domains over Eastern Texas for validation of near real-time satellite detected air pollution events 9:30 Herve Petetin, France Novel model evaluation approach focusing on local and advected contributions to urban PM levels 9:45 Athanasios Sfetsos, Greece An overview of the Demokritos AQF system 10:00 Joana Soares, Finland Impact of climate change on the production and near-surface concentrations of sea salt aerosol Health Break 10:15-10:45 Data Assimilation (Co-chairs Vincent-Henri Peuch and Georg Grell) 10:45 Sunling Gong, Canada CMA WMO/GURME Pilot Project NRT application to air quality forecasts 11:00 Lennart Robertson, Sweden Operational data assimilation of dust elements by means of satellite observations 11:15 Julius Vira, Finland Regional scale particulate matter emission estimates using satellite observations and a variational inversion method 11:30 Greg Carmichael, USA Improving aerosol distributions below clouds by assimilating satellite-retrieved cloud droplet number

5 Reports from Breakout Sessions (Chair: Greg Carmichael) : Lunch 13:45-14:30 Reports from Breakout Sessions (cont) Open Discussion :00 Closing remarks and 5th IWAQFR