ABC

ABC-Asia

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The Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABC) field campaign is taking place from October, 2004. This campaign will investigate the relationship between air pollution and climate issues over South, Southeast and East Asia. Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa, is providing daily chemical weather forecasts in support of this experiment.

Two coordinated forecasts are produced daily. The tracer forecasts utilize the CFORS system, which contains a variety of air mass and emission markers calculated on-line inside the RAMS meteorological modeling system. Meteorological and tracer fields are produced with high time resolution. These tracers are not designed to produce absolute quantities but rather reflect air mass characteristics (for example, CO tracers is only primary CO, and does not include a background or contributions from hydrocarbon and methane oxidation). Photochemical and Aerosol forecasts are produced using the University of Iowa's STEM-2k3 model.

ABC-2K5

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The Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABC) field campaign at Cheju Island is taking place from October, 2004. This campaign will investigate the relationship between air pollution and climate issues over East Asia and Western Pacific. The Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research at the Universioty of Iowa, is providing daily chemical weather forecasts in support of this experiment.

Two coordinated forecasts are produced daily. The meteorological forecast iss provided by the CFORS/RAMS system in Kyushu University, Japan. We are providing daily STEM tracer and STEM-2K3 full-chemistry forecasts in 80km horizontal resolution. These tracers are not designed to produce absolute quantities but rather reflect air mass characteristics (for example, CO tracers is only primary emitted CO, and does not include a background or contributions from hydrocarbon and methane oxidation).

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STEM & CFORS Forecasts

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If you want to study current or previous scenarios instead of flight planning, previous forecasts may be more helpful. Please contact Gregory Carmichael, or Youhua Tang for further analyzed products.