Modeling Air Quality and Climate Interactions: from Urban to Global Scale

Speaker:Dr. Yang Zhang,
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCAbstract:Simulating air quality-climate interactions represents a major challenge in quantifying the impacts of urban/regional air pollution on climate change. A unified global-through-urban fully-coupled online climate and chemistry model provides an excellent model framework to accurately simulate such interactions. Such a unified global-through-urban model is being developed at North Carolina State University based on the U.S. NCAR's Global Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model and the U.S. NOAA's mesoscale WRF with Chemistry (referred to as GU-WRF/Chem). This presentation will highlight our recent model development toward GU-WRF/Chem, demonstrate the model's capability with several case studies on urban/regional/global scales, and discuss major challenges and future directions in modeling air quality and climate/meteorology feedbacks.

Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Evangeline Reyes