WRF/Chem is the Weather Research and Forecasting model of NCAR/NOAA with a fully coupled "online" chemistry. In the real atmosphere, the chemical and physical processes are coupled i.e the chemistry can affect the meteorology, e.g the radiation balance affected by aerosols. Likewise, meteorological parameters like wind, temperature, clouds and precipitation strongly influence chemical transport, transformation and removal processes. In WRF/Chem the air quality component of the model is fully consistent with the meteorological component, with the transport of species done using the same vertical and horizontal coordinates and the same physics parameterization with no interpolation in space or time. The model currently offers a choice different mechanisms for chemistry (RADM2/ RACM/ CBM-Z) as well as Aerosols (MADE-SORGAM/ MOSAIC), having nearly 39 predicted chemical species and 34 aerosol species.
Presentations By:
- Dr. Georg Grell - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Dr. Steven Peckham - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Gufran Beig - Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
- Chandra Venkataraman - Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Mohit Dalvi - CAS-SECG, C-DAC, Pune
- S. Ramachandran - Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
- WRF/ChemTutorial Notes - Quick Guide
- WRF/CHEM User Guide
Others
References:
Wrfchem Website
Wrf-model Website
Participation: By invitation
- Scientists with atmospheric chemistry, pollution modeling background or
- Scientists with mesoscale meteorology modeling background
- Knowledge of Fortran program execution on UNIX/LINUX platforms
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