Development of air quality models in Chile First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003 by Rainer Schmitz Department of Geophysics University of Chile Research Center Karlsruhe IMK-IFU, Germany
Use of air quality models in Chile Institutions and their respective models: CENMA (Casmassi) University of Santiago (Neural Networks) Chilean Weather Office (MM5) CONAMA/CENMA (AIRVIRO, HIRLAM/MATCH) Catholic University (UAM, CAMx, CALMET) University of Chile Department of Geophysics (CADM, MM5, MM5/Chemistry (MCCM), WRF) Center for Mathematical Modelling (HIRLAM/MATCH) Others (KAMM/DRAIS) First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Santiago de Chile 40km First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Santiago de Chile Typical synoptic situations Winter Summer 20 S 50 S Garreaud et al., 2002 First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Problems for winter air quality forecast EmissionsSurface winds at 21 hrs (LT) PM10 concentrations between June 20-22, 2000 First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Actual Forecast Diagnostic air quality data Diagnostic meteo- rology data Subjective meteo- rological forecast Multiple regression analysis Neural network Forecast First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Model development PM10 Concentrations in Pudahuel and Parque O'Higgins Mixing layer height according to MM5 forecast First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Diagnostic air quality data Diagnostic meteo- rology data Prognostic meteoro- logical data from NWP Multiple regression analysis Neural network Forecast Model development PM10 First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Dynamical models with forecasting potential CADM (Chilean Air pollution Dispersion Model) Off-line Meterology:MM5 Gas phase: RADM2 Aerosols: MADE/SORGAM MM5/Chemistry (MCCM) On-line Meteorology:MM5 Gas Phase: RADM2 Aerosols: MADE/SORGAM WRF/Chemistry On-line Meteorology:WRF Gas Phase: RADM2 Aerosols: MADE/SORGAM First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
CADM (CO) First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
CADM (Ozone) g/m3 First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003 Las Condes Seminario Observation Simulation
Problems for summer air quality forecast First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003 Emission inventories Model validation
WRF/Chemistry First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003 PM10PM2.5 (from NOAA/FSL)
MM5/Chemistry Ozone Aerosols First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Computational infrastructure Linux Cluster –10 nodes with dual Pentium 4 processors –SCALI interconnect Digital alpha 4100 First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003
Resources Economic resources –Present: Funding from CONAMA –Future: Research projects, private sources Human resources –Master students First Air Quality Workshop for the GURME Latin America project, Santiago de Chile, 2003