USWRP Workshop on Air Quality
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Doc #: 45
Title: USWRP Workshop on Air Quality | Document Link
Organization/Author: W. Dabberdt
Type:
Year: 2006
Region: North America
Observation Type:
Observation Needs:
Document Status: Unsubmitted, 2009/08/31
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Description of Document: Research needs to improve AQ Forecasting - experts/stakeholders, emphasis on meteorological aspects
Satellite: Advancing measurement
technology allows the deployment of real-time in situ
sensors in dense surface networks and on mobile
platforms, and remote sensing instruments at the
surface and on satellite platforms that can acquire
needed data with sufficient temporal and spatial
resolution.
The use of satellite data to constrain air-chemistry to specify initial conditions and boundary conditions for AQF modeling has considerable potential. Because the vertical and horizontal scales of satellite retrievals of air chemistry species vary greatly, the optimum use of various satellite products that could provide model constraints on column totals of air-chemistry species needs to be explored.
