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Middle-East Air-Pollutant Climatology by

Middle-East Air-Pollutant Climatology by J. SAFI 0 , M. Abu-Kubieh 0 , K. Rishmawi # , S. Kasakseh* # M. Luria + , E. Weinroth + *, E. Tas + , V. Matziev + , I. Levi + , J. Kaplan + R. Bornstein* *San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA , + The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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  1. Middle-East Air-Pollutant Climatology by J. SAFI0, M. Abu-Kubieh0, K. Rishmawi#, S. Kasakseh*# M. Luria+, E. Weinroth+*, E. Tas+, V. Matziev+, I. Levi+, J. Kaplan+ R. Bornstein* *San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA , +The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel #Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, Bethlehem, West Bank0Environmental Protection & Research Institute, Gaza City, Gaza Prepared for CLEAN AIR CONGRESS LONDON, UK: AUG 2004

  2. FUNDING: USAID/MERC PROGRAM

  3. OUTLINE • PROJECT OBJECTIVES • METEOROLOGICAL PATTERNS • EMISSION PATTERNS • CASE STUDIES • SFBA WINTER STORMS (LOZEJ 2000) • ATLANTA THUNDERSTORMS (CRAIG 2002) • LOS ANGELES 03 (Atmos Environ 2003a,b) • SFBA O3 (this paper) • HOUSTON UHI AND O3 (this paper) • Mid-East O3 (other papers here) • NYC ER (just starting) • CONCLUSIONS

  4. Specific objectives include: • Install environmental monitoring sites • Prepare of environmental databases • Prepare a regional climatology • Conduct field campaigns during periods conducive to poor regional air quality • (5) Apply RAMS & MM5 met models and CAMx photochemical air quality model to increase understanding of current and future air quality problems

  5. Results show • spatial & temporal variations in met factors & air quality concentrations • emission patterns also show temporal & spatial patterns that reflect land use patterns • RAMS winds reproduce observed transport patterns • CAMx ozone fields reproduce transboundary transport patterns observed by aircraft

  6. Topo map of study area

  7. Future Plans: • GIS/RS tech will be used at Tel Aviv Univ, ARIJ, an EPRI to determine gridded fields of sfc characteristics (e.g., z0, ε, α, LU/LC) for input into uMM5 and CAMx   • Urbanized EPA MM5 meso-model (called uMM5xx) will simulate additional flow cases on the 106 CPU SJSU cluster • CAMx photochemical model will be run with current precursor emissions using output from the RAMS and uMM5xx simulations •  Planners at ARIJ, EPRI, and HUJI will identify future regional emission scenarios from projected population conditions during 2010 and 2020 (when regional populations will have doubled from present values) to be tested in CAMx •  CAMx simulations will evaluate environmental impacts from the projected emissions

  8. FIRST CALL: ASAAQ2005 THE 2005 ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND AIR QUALITY CONF WILL BE HELD ON 27-29 APRIL 2005 IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA, USBA. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFO CAN BE FOUND AT THE AMERICAN METEOR-OLOGICAL SOCIETY WEB PAGE: AMETSOC.ORG OR FROM BOB BORNSTEIN AT PBLMODEL@HOTMAIL.COM OR FROM GREG CARMICHAEL AT GCARMICH@ENGINEERING.UIOWA.EDU

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