The WRF-Chemistry Model and Numerical Air Quality
Prediction (NAQP) at MCNC's North Carolina
Supercomputing Center:
Possibilities for Partnership
with NCEP
John McHenry
MCNC's Environmental Modeling Center
at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Abstract:
MCNC's Environmental Modeling Center (http://www.emc.mcnc.org),
located at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC)
(http://www.ncsc.org) in Research Triangle Park, NC, has
pioneered the development and deployment of an operational
numerical air quality prediction (NAQP) system. We are actively
participating in NOAA's air quality forecasting initiative,
and are working with FSL/NCAR in the development of
the WRF-Chemistry model. In this seminar, we will describe the
current generation system including representative recent forecast
evaluations, describe the software engineering needed
to both optimize compute-intensive photochemical models for
operational forecasting and couple them to efficient online
emissions models in real-time, review our current and planned
contributions to WRF-Chem, and provide an overview of MCNC's
North Carolina Supercomputing Center, its capabilities, and
mission. Possible opportunities for collaboration/partnership
with NCEP in transition of the prototype WRF-Chemistry and/or
(parts of) current-generation model(s) to production national-scale
Eta-in-WRF-Chem forecasting will be explored.