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Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System (CMAQ)

CMAQ Publications

Publications by CMAQ team members and collaborators

Find references to the science in CMAQ and learn more about a wide range of model applications.

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2020

Chen, L., Xing, J., Mathur, R., Liu, S., Wang, S., & Hao, J. (2020). Quantification of the enhancement of PM2.5 concentration by the downward transport of ozone from the stratosphere. Chemosphere, 255. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126907

Guan, S., Wong, D. C., Gao, Y., Zhang, T., & Pouliot, G. (2020). Impact of wildfire on particulate matter in the southeastern United States in November 2016. Science of the Total Environment, 724. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138354

Huang, Y., Lu, X., Fung, J. C. H., Sarwar, G., Li, Z., Li, Q., . . . Lau, A. K. H. (2020). Effect of bromine and iodine chemistry on tropospheric ozone over Asia-Pacific using the CMAQ model. Chemosphere, 262, 127595-127595. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127595

Itahashi, S., Mathur, R., Hogrefe, C., Napelenok, S. L., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Modeling stratospheric intrusion and trans-Pacific transport on tropospheric ozone using hemispheric CMAQ during April 2010-Part 2: Examination of emission impacts based on the higher-order decoupled direct method. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(6), 3397-3413. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3397-2020

Itahashi, S., Mathur, R., Hogrefe, C., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Modeling stratospheric intrusion and trans-Pacific transport on tropospheric ozone using hemispheric CMAQ during April 2010-Part 1: Model evaluation and air mass characterization for stratosphere-troposphere transport. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(6), 3373-3396. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3373-2020

Kang, D. W., Mathur, R., Pouliot, G. A., Gilliam, R. C., & Wong, D. C. (2020). Significant ground-level ozone attributed to lightning-induced nitrogen oxides during summertime over the Mountain West States. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-0108-2

Lu, Q. Y., Murphy, B. N., Qin, M. M., Adams, P., Zhao, Y. L., Pye, H. O. T., . . . Robinson, A. L. (2020). Simulation of organic aerosol formation during the CalNex study: updated mobile emissions and secondary organic aerosol parameterization for intermediate-volatility organic compounds. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(7), 4313-4332. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-4313-2020

Luo, H., Astitha, M., Rao, S. T., Hogrefe, C., & Mathur, R. (2020). Assessing the manageable portion of ground-level ozone in the contiguous United States. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2020.1805375

Peterson, G. C. L., Hogrefe, C., Corrigan, A. E., Neas, L. M., Mathur, R., & Rappold, A. G. (2020). Impact of Reductions in Emissions from Major Source Sectors on Fine Particulate Matter-Related Cardiovascular Mortality. Environmental Health Perspectives, 128(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp5692

Schmedding, R., Rasool, Q. Z., Zhang, Y., Pye, H. O. T., Zhang, H., Chen, Y., . . . Vizuete, W. (2020). Predicting secondary organic aerosol phase state and viscosity and its effect on multiphase chemistry in a regional-scale air quality model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(13), 8201-8225. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8201-2020

Tao, H. R., Xing, J., Zhou, H. S., Pleim, J., Ran, L. M., Chang, X., . . . Li, J. H. (2020). Impacts of improved modeling resolution on the simulation of meteorology, air quality, and human exposure to PM2.5, O-3 in Beijing, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 243http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118574

Zhang, H., Wang, J., Garcia, L. C., Ge, C., Plessel, T., Szykman, J., . . . Spero, T. L. (2020). Improving Surface PM2.5 Forecasts in the United States Using an Ensemble of Chemical Transport Model Outputs: 1. Bias Correction With Surface Observations in Nonrural Areas. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 125(14). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032293

Zhao, S., Russell, M. G., Hakami, A., Capps, S. L., Turner, M. D., Henze, D. K., . . . Chai, T. (2020). A multiphase CMAQ version 5.0 adjoint. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(7), 2925-2944. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2925-2020

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2019

Baker K., Koplitz S., Foley K., Avey L., Hawkins, A. (2019) Characterizing grassland fire activity in the Flint Hills region and air quality using satellite and routine surface monitor data. Science of the Total Environment, 659, 1555-1566. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.427

Campbell P., Bash J., Nolte C., Spero T., Cooter E.,  Hinson K., Linker L. (2019). Projections of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 124, 3307-3326. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005203

Curci G., Alyuz U., Barò R., Bianconi R., Bieser J., Christensen JH., Colette A., Farrow A., Francis X., Jiménez-Guerrero P., Im U., Liu P., Manders A., Palacios-Peña L., Prank M., Pozzoli L., Sokhi R., Solazzo E., Tuccella P., Unal A., Vivanco M.G., Hogrefe C., Galmarini S. (2019) Modelling black carbon absorption of solar radiation: combining external and internal mixing assumptions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(1), 181-204. doi:  https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-181-2019

Huiying L., Astitha M., Hogrefe C., Mathur R., Rao S.T. (2019) A new method for assessing the efficacy of emission control strategies. Atmospheric Environment, 199, 233-243. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.11.010

Kang, D., Pickering, K., Allen, D., Foley, K., Wong, D., Mathur, R., & Roselle, S. (2019). Simulating Lightning NOX Production in CMAQv5.2: Evolution of Scientific Updates. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2019, 1-23.  doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-33

Kelly J., Koplitz S., Baker K., Holder A., Pye H., Murphy B., Bash J., Henderson B., Possiel N., Simon H., Eyth A. Jang C., Phillips S., Timin B. (2019) Assessing PM2.5 model performance for the conterminous U.S. with comparison to model performance statistics from 2007-2015. Atmospheric Environment, 214:116872. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116872

Liu P., Hogrefe C., Im U., Christensen J.H., Bieser J., Nopmongcol U., Yarwood G., Mathur R., Roselle S., Spero T. (2018) Attributing differences in the fate of lateral boundary ozone in AQMEII3 models to physical process representations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(23): 17157. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17157-2018

Luecken, D. J., Yarwood, G., & Hutzell, W. T. (2019). Multipollutant modeling of ozone, reactive nitrogen and HAPs across the continental US with CMAQ-CB6. Atmospheric Environment, 201, 62-72.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.11.060

Luo H., Astitha M., Hogrefe C., Mathur R., Rao, S.T. (2019) A new method for assessing the efficacy of emission control strategies. Atmospheric Environment, 199, 233-243 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.11.010

Pay M.T., Gangoiti G., Guevara M., Napelenok S., Querol X., Jorba O., Garcia-Pando C.P. (2019) Ozone source apportionment during peak summer events over southwestern Europe. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19 (8), 5467-5494. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-5467-2019

Pleim J., Ran L., Appel K.W., Shephard M., Cady-Pereira K. (2019) New bidirectional ammonia flux model in an air quality model coupled with an agricultural model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(9), 2934-2957. doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001728

Pye, H., D’Ambro, E. L., Lee, B. H., Schobesberger, S., Takeuchi, M., Zhao, Y., . . . Thornton, J. A. (2019). Anthropogenic enhancements to production of highly oxygenated molecules from autoxidation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(14), 6641.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810774116

Rasool, Q. Z., Bash, J. O., & Cohan, D. S. (2019). Mechanistic representation of soil nitrogen emissions in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model v 5.1. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(2), 849-878.  doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-849-2019

Sarwar, G., Gantt, B., Foley, K., Fahey, K., Spero, T. L., Kang, D., . . . Saiz-Lopez, A. (2019). Influence of bromine and iodine chemistry on annual, seasonal, diurnal, and background ozone: CMAQ simulations over the Northern Hemisphere. Atmospheric Environment, 213, 395-404.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.06.020

Schmedding R., Ma M., Zhang Y., Farrell S., Pye H., Chen Y., Wang C., Rasool Q., Budisulistiorini S.H., Ault A., Surratt J., Vizuete W. (2019) α-pinene-derived organic coatings on acidic sulfate aerosol impacts secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene in a box model. Atmospheric Environment, 213, 456-462. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.06.005

Schwede D., Cole A., Vet R., Lear G. (2019) Ongoing U.S.-Canada collaboration on nitrogen and sulfur deposition. EM:  Air and Waste Management Association’s Magazine for Environmental Managers, June 2019, http://pubs.awma.org/flip/EM-June-2019/schwede.pdf

Walker J., Beachley G., Amos H., Baron J.S., Bash J., Baumgardner R., Bell M.D., Benedict K.B., Chen X., Clow D.W., Cole A., Coughlin J.G., Cruz K., Daly R.W., Decina S.M., Elliott E.M., Fenn M.E., Ganzeveld L., Gebhart K., Isil S.S., Kerschner B.M., Larson R.S., Lavery T., Lear G.G., Macy T., Mast M.A., Mishoe K., Morris K.H., Padgett P.E., Pouyat R.V., Puchalski M., Pye H., et al. (2019) Toward the improvement of total nitrogen deposition budgets in the United States. Science of the Total Environment, 691, 1328-1352. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.058.

Wang, M. Y., Yim, S. H. L., Wong, D. C., & Ho, K. F. (2019). Source contributions of surface ozone in China using an adjoint sensitivity analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 662, 385-392.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.116

Zare A., Fahey K., Sarwar G., Cohen R., Pye H. (2019) Vapor-pressure pathways initiate but hydrolysis products dominate the aerosol estimated from organic nitrates. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3(8), 1426-1437. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00067

Zhang S., Xing J., Sarwar G., Ge Y., He H., Duan F., Zhao Y., He K., Zhu L., Chu B. (2019) Parameterization of heterogeneous reaction of SO2 to sulfate on dust with coexistence of NH3 and NO2 under different humidity conditions. Atmospheric Environment, 208, 133-140. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.04.004

Zhang, Y., Foley, K. M., Schwede, D. B., Bash, J. O., Pinto, J. P., & Dennis, R. L. (2019). A Measurement-Model Fusion Approach for Improved Wet Deposition Maps and Trends. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(7), 4237-4251.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029051

Zhou, L. X., Schwede, D. B., Appel, K. W., Mangiante, M. J., Wong, D. C., Napelenok, S. L., . . . Zhang, B. L. (2019). The impact of air pollutant deposition on solar energy system efficiency: An approach to estimate PV soiling effects with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Science of the Total Environment, 651, 456-465.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.19

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2018
 

Astitha M., Kioutskioukis I., Fisseha G., Bianconi R., Bieser J., Christensen J., Cooper O., Galmarini S., Hogrefe C., et al. (2018) Seasonal ozone vertical profiles over North America using the AQMEII3 group of air quality models: model inter-comparison and stratospheric intrusions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18(19):13925-13945. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13925-2018

Baker, K.R., Woody, M., C., Valin, L., Szykman, J., Yates, E.L., Iraci, L.T., Choi, H.D., Soja, A., J., Koplitz, S.,N., Zhou, L., Campuzano-Jost, P., Jimenez, J.,L., Hair, J.W. (2018). Photochemical model evaluation of 2013 California wild fire air quality impacts using surface, aircraft, and satellite data. Science of the Total Environment, 637-638, 1137-1149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.048

Campbell, P. C., Bash, J. O., & Spero, T. L. (2019). Updates to the Noah Land Surface Model in WRF-CMAQ to Improve Simulated Meteorology, Air Quality, and Deposition. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(1), 231-256.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018ms001422

Iiames J, Cooter E, Schwede D, Williams J. (2018) A comparison of simulated and field-driven Leaf Area Index (LAI) and canopy height values from four forest complexes in the Southeastern USA. Forests, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/f9010026.

Kelly J, Parworth C, Zhang Q, Miller D, Sun K, Zondlo M, Baker K, Wisthaler A, Nowak J, Pusede S, Cohen R, Weinheimer A, Beyersdorf A, Tonnesen G, Bash J, Valin L, Crawford J, Fried A, and Walega J. (2018) Modeling NH4NO3 over the San Joaquin Valley during the 2013 Discover-AQ campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028290.

Liu P., Hogrefe C., Im U., Christensen JH., Bieser J., Nopmongcol U., Yarwood G., Mathur R, Roselle S., Spero T. (2018) Attributing differences in the fate of lateral boundary ozone in AQMEII3 models to physical process representations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17157-2018.

Mathur R, Xing J, Gilliam R, Sarwar G, Hogrefe C, Pleim J, Pouliot G, Roselle S, Spero TL, Wong DC, Young J. (2017) Extending the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to hemispheric scales: overview of process considerations and initial applications. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, doi: https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/12449/2017/.

Matichuk R, Tonnesen G, Luecken D, Gilliam R, Napelenok S, Baker K, Schwede D, Murphy B, Helmig D, Lyman S, Brown S, Roselle S. (2017) Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model for simulating winter ozone formations in the Uinta Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027057 DEC 27 2017

Muntildeiz-Unamunzaga, M., Borge, R., Sarwar, G., Gantt, B., de la Paz, D., Cuevas, C., Saiz-Lopez, A., 2017. The influence of ocean halogen and sulfur emissions in the air quality of a coastal megacity: the case of Los Angeles. Science of the Total Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv/2017.06.098

Pye, H., Zuend, A., Fry, J., Isaacman-VanWertz, G., Capps, S., Appel, K., Foroutan, H., Xu, Lu., Ng, Nga.,Goldstein, A. (2018). Coupling of organic and inorganic aerosol systems and the effect on gas - particle partitioning in the southeaster US. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-357-2018

Schwede D., Simpson D., Tan J., Fu J., Dentener F., Du E., deVries W. (2018) Spatial variation of modelled total, dry and wet nitrogen deposition to forests at global scale. Environmental Pollution, 243(2), 1287-1301. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.09.084

Vennam, L., Vizuete, W., Talgo, K., Omary, M., Binkowski, F., Xing, J., Mathur, R. (2018) Modeled full-flight aircraft emissions impacts on air quality and their sensitivity to grid resolution. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. doi: https://doi.org/0.1002/2017JD026598 DEC 27

Wilkins J., Pouliot G, Foley K., Appel K.W., Pierce T. (2018) The impact of US wildland fires on ozone and particulate matter: a comparison of measurements and CMAQ model predictions from 2008 to 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27(10), 684-698. doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18053

Xu, L., Pye, H. O. T., He, J., Chen, Y. L., Murphy, B. N., Ng, N. L. (2018) Experimental and model estimates of the contributions from biogenic monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes to secondary organic aerosol in the southeastern United States.  Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18: 12613-12637. doi: 10.5194/acp-18-12613-2018 

Yuan Y., Wang R., Cooter E., Ran L., Daggupati P., Yang D., Srinivasan R., Jalowska A. (2018) Integrating multimedia models to assess nitrogen losses from the Mississippi River basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences, 15(23), 7059-7076. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-7059-2018

Zhang YQ, Smith SJ, Bowden JH, Adelman Z, West JJ. (2017) Co-benefits of global, domestic, and sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation for US air quality and human health in 2050. Environmental Research Letters, doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f76.

Zhang HF, Yee LD, Lee BH, Curtis MP, Worton DR, Isaacman-VanWertz G, Offenberg JH, Lewandowski M, Kleindienst TE, Beaver MR, Holder AL, Lonneman WA, Docherty KS, Jaoui M, Pye HOT, Hu WW, Day DA, Campuzano-Jost P, Jimenez JL, Guo HY, Weber RJ, de Gouw J, Koss AR, Edgerton ES, Brune W, Mohr C, Lopez-Hilfiker FD, Lutz A, Kreisberg NM, Spielman SR, Hering SV, Wilson KR, Thornton JA, Goldstein AH. (2018) Monoterpenes are the largest source of summertime organic aerosol in the southeastern United States. Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717513115

Zhao Y., Thornton J.A., Pye H. (2018) Quantitative constraints on autoxidation and dimer formation from direct probing of monoterpene-derived peroxy radical chemistry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812147115

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2017

Appel, K.W., Napelenok, S.L., Foley, K.M., Pye, H.O.T., Hogrefe, C., Luecken, D.J., Bash, J.O., Roselle, S.J., Pleim, J.E., Foroutan, H., Hutzell, W.T., Pouliot, G.A., Sarwar, G., Fahey, K.M., Gantt, B., Gilliam, R.C., Heath, N.K., Kang, D.W., Mathur, R., Schwede, D.B., Spero, T.L., Wong, D.C., & Young, J.O. (2017). Description and evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.1. Geoscientific Model Development, 10(4), 1703-1732. doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1703-2017

Appel, K.W., Napelenok, S.L., Hogrefe, C., Foley, K.M., Pouliot, G.A., Murphy, B., Heath, N., Roselle, S., Pleim, J., Bash, J.O., Pye, H.O.T., Mathur, R. (2017). Overview and evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system version 5.2. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXV, 11:63-72. ITM 2016. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57645-9_11.

Astitha, M., Luo, H.Y., Rao, S.T., Hogrefe, C., Mathur, R., & Kumar, N. (2017). Dynamic evaluation of two decades of WRF-CMAQ ozone simulations over the contiguous United States.  Atmospheric Environment, 164. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.020 

Baker, K.R. & Woody, M.C. (2017). Assessing model characterization of single source secondary pollutant impacts using 2013 SENEX field study measurements. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(7), 3833–3842. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05069

Baklanov, A., Brunner, D., Carmichael, G., Flemming, J., Freitas, S., Gauss, M., Hov, Ø., Mathur, R., Schlünzen, K.H., Seigneur, C., Vogel, B. (2017). Key issues for seamless integrated chemistry-meteorology modeling. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00166.1

Budisulistiorini, S., Nenes, A., Grover Carlton, A.M., Surratt, J.D., McNeill, V.F., & Pye, H.O.T. (2017).  Simulating aqueous-phase isoprene-epoxydiol (IEPOX) secondary organic aerosol production during the 2013 Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS). Environmental Science & Technology, 51(9),  5026–5034. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05750

Chang, S.Y., Vizuete, W., Serre, M., Vennam, L.P., Omary, M., Isakov, V., Breen, M., Arunachalam, S. (2017). Finely resolved on-road PM2.5 and estimated premature mortality in central North Carolina. Risk Analysis, 37: 2420-2434. doi: 10.1111/risa.12775.

Cooter, E., Dodder, R., Bash, J., Elobeid, A., Ran, L., Benson, V., Yuang, D. (2017). Exploring a United States maize cellulose biofuel scenario using an integrated energy and agricultrual markets solution approach. Annals of Agricultural & Crop Sciences, 2(2): 1031.

Dionisio, K., Nolte, C., Spero, T., Graham, S., Caraway, N., Foley, K., & Isaacs, K. (2017). Characterizing the impact of projected changes in climate and air quality on human exposures to ozone. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 27, 260-270. doi: 10.1038/jes.2016.81

Fahey, K.M., Carlton, A.G., Pye, H.O.T., Baek, J., Hutzell, W.T., Stanier, C.O., Baker, K.R., Appel, K.W., Jaoui, M., & Offenberg, J.H. (2017). A framework for expanding aqueous chemistry in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.1. Geoscientific Model Development10, 1587-1605. doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1587-2017

Fann, N., Alman, B., Broome, R., Morgan, G., Johnson, F., Pouliot, G., Rappold, A. (2017). The health impacts and economic value of wildland fire episodes in the U.S.: 2008-2012. Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.024

Foroutan, H., Young, J., Napelenok, S., Ran, L., Appel, K.W., Pleim, J. (2017). Development and evaluation of a physics-based windblown dust emission scheme implemented in the CMAQ modeling system. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems9, doi: 10.1002/2016MS000823.

Galmarini, S., Koffi, B., Dentener, F., Keating, T., Hogrefe, C., Schulz, M., Benedictow, A., Griesfeller, J.J., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Carmichael, G., Fu, J., & Dentener, F. (2017). Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 1543-1555. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-1543-2017

Gantt, B., Sarwar, G., Xing, J., Simon, H., Schwede D., Hutzell, W.T., Mathur, R., & Saiz-Lopez, Alfonso. (2017). The impact of iodide-mediated ozone deposition and halogen chemistry on surface ozone concentrations across the continental United States. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(3), 1458-1466. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03556

Garcia, V., Cooter, E., Crooks, J., Hinkley, B., Murphy, M., & Xing, X. (2017). Examining the impacts of increased corn production on groundwater quality using a coupled modeling system. Science of the Total Environment, 586, 16-24. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.009

Hogrefe, C., Roselle, S.J., & Bash, J.O. (2017). Persistence of initial conditions in continental scale air quality simulations. Atmospheric Environment, 160, 36-45. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.04.009

Li, P., Wang, L., Guo, P., Yu, S., Mehmood, K., Wang, S., Liu, W., Seinfeld, J., Zhang, Y., Wong, D., Alapaty, K., Pleim, J., and Mathur, R. (2017). High reduction of ozone and particulate matter during the 2016 G-20 summit in Hangzhou by forced emission controls of industry and traffic. Environmental Chemistry Letters. doi: 10.1007/s10311-017-0642-2

Jathar, S.H., Woody, M., Pye, H.O.T., Baker, K.R., & Robinson, A.L. (2017). Chemical transport model simulations of organic aerosol in southern California: model evaluation and gasoline and diesel source contributions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(6), 4305-4318. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-4305-2017

Mathur, R., Kang, D., Napelenok, S., Xing, J., Hogrefe, C. (2017). A modeling sudy of the influence of hemispheric transport on trends in 03 distributions over North America. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXV. doi: 10.1007.978-3-319-57645-9 2

Mathur, R., Xing, J., Gilliam, R., Sarwar, G., Hogrefe, C., Pleim, J., Pouliot, G., Roselle, S., Spero, T.L., Wong, D.C., Young, J. (2017). Extending the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to hemispheric scales: overview of process considerations and initial applications. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. doi: https:www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/12449/2017/

Matichuk, R., Tonnesen, G., Luecken, D., Gilliam, R., Napelenok, S., Baker, K., Schwede, D., Murphy, B., Helmig, D., Lyman, S., Brown, S., Roselle, S. (2017). Evaluation of the Community Mulitscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model for simulating winter ozone formations in the Uinta Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. doi: 10.1002/2017JD027057 DEC 27 2017

McCrackin, M.L., Cooter, E.J., Dennis, R.L., Harrison, J.A., & Compton, J.E. (2017). Alternative futures of dissolved inorganic nitrogen export from the Mississippi River Basin: influence of crop management, atmospheric deposition, and population growth. Biogeochemistry, 133(3), 263–277. doi: 10.1007/s10533-017-0331-z

Murphy, B. N., Woody, M. C., Jimenez, J. L., Carlton, A. M. G., Hayes, P. L., Liu, S., Ng, N. L., Russell, L. M., Setyan, A., Xu, L., Young, J., Zaveri, R. A., Zhang, Q., and Pye, H. O. T. (2017). Semivolatile POA and parameterized total combustion SOA in CMAQv5.2: impacts on source strength and partitioning, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 17: 11107-11133. doi: 10.5194/acp-2017-11107-2017 

Ng, H.L., Brown, S.S., Archibald, A.T., Atlas, E., Cohen, R.C., ... , & Zaveri, R.A. (2017). Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms and organic aerosol. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 2103–2162. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-2103-2017

Penn, S.L., Arunachalam, S., Woody, M., Heiger-Bernays, W., Tripodis, Y., & Levy, J.L. (2017). Estimating state-specific contributions to PM2.5 and O3 related health burden from residential combustion and electricity generating unit emissions in the United States. Environmental Health Perspectives125(3), 324-332. doi: 10.1289/EHP550

Porter, P.S., Rao, S.T., Hogrefe, C., & Mathur, R. (2017). A reduced form model for ozone based on two decades of CMAQ simulations for the continental United States. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 8(2), 275-284. doi: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.09.005

Pye, H.O.T., Murphy, B.N., Xu, L., Ng, N.L., Carlton, A.G., Guo, H., Weber, R., Vasilakos, P., Appel, K.W., Budisulistiorini, S.H., Surratt, J.D., Nenes, A., Hu, W., Jimenez, J.L., Isaacman-VanWertz, G., Misztal, P.K., & Goldstein, A.H. (2017). On the implications of aerosol liquid water and phase separation for organic aerosol mass. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 343-369. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-343-2017

Ran, L., Pleim, J., Song, C., Band, L., Walker, J.T., & Binkowski, F.S. (2017). A photosynthesis-based two-leaf canopy stomatal conductance model for meteorology and air quality modeling with WRF/CMAQ PX LSM. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. doi: 10.1002/2016JD025583

Rappold, A., Reyes, J., Pouliot, G., Cascio, W., Diaz-Sanchez, D. (2017). Community vulnerability to health impacts from wildland fire smoke exposure. Environmental Science & Technology. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b06200

Sarwar, G., Xing, J., Fahey, K., Wong, D., Mathur, R., Gan, C., Gantt, B., Simon, H., and Kang, D. (2017). Dimethylsulfide chemistry: annual, seasonal, and spatial impacts on sulfate. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXV. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57645-9 55

Solazzo, E., Bianconi, R., Hogrefe, C., Curci, G., Tuccella, P., … , & Galmarini, S. Evaluation and error apportionment of an ensemble of atmospheric chemistry transport modeling systems: multivariable temporal and spatial breakdown. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics17(4), 3001-3054. doi: 10.5194/acp-17-3001-2017

Solazzo, E., Hogrefe, C., Colette, A., Garcia-Vivanco, M., and Galmarini, S. (2017). Advanced error diagnostics of the CMAQ and Chimere modelling systems within the AQMEII3 model evaluation framework. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. doi: 10.5197/acp-17-10435-2017

Wang, J., Xing, J., Mathur, R., Pleim, J.E., Wang S., Hogrefe, C., Gan, C.M., Wong, D.C., & Hao, J.M. (2017). Historical trends in PM2.5-related premature mortality during 1990-2010 across the Northern Hemisphere. Environmental Health Perspectives125(3), 400-408. doi: 10.1289/EHP298

Wilson, A., Reich, B. J., Nolte, C. G., Spero, T. L., Hubbell, B., & Rappold, A. G. (2017). Climate change impacts on projections of excess mortality at 2030 using spatially varying ozone-temperature risk surfaces.  Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology27, 118-124.  doi:10.1038/jes.2016.14

Wong, D., Wang, Q., Kwok, R., Wu, J., and Fu, Q., (2017). O3 source contribution during a heavy 03 pollution episode in Shanghai, China. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXV. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-57645-9 67.

Zhang, Y.Q., Smith, S.J., Bowden, J.H., Adelman, Z., West, J.J. (2017) Co-benefits of global, domestic, and sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation for US air quality and human health in 2050. Environmental Research Letters. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f76

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2016

Arunachalam, S., Woody, M., Omary, M., Penn, S., Chung, S., Woo, M., Tambouret, Y., & Levy, J. (2016). Modeling the air quality and public health benefits of increased residential insulation in the United States. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 135-140. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_22

Baker, K., Woody, M., Tonnesen, G., Hutzell, B., Pye, H., Beaver, M., Pouliot, G., & Pierce, T. (2016). Contribution of regional-scale fire events to ozone and PM2.5 air quality estimated by photochemical modeling approaches. Atmospheric Environment, 140, 539-554. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.06.032

Bash, J., Baker, K., & Beaver, M. (2016). Evaluation of improved land use and canopy representation in BEIS v3.61 with biogenic VOC measurements in California. Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 2191-2207. doi: 10.5194/gmd-9-2191-2016

Fann, N., Brennan, T., Dolwick, P., Gamble, J. L., Ilaqua, V., Kolb, L., Nolte, C. G., Spero, T. L., & Ziska, L. (2016). Ch. 3: Air Quality Impacts. The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States:  A Scientific Assessment.  U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, 69-98. doi:10.7930/JOGQ6VP6.

Farkas, C.M., Moeller, M.D., Felder, F.A., Henderson,B.H., & Carlton, A.G. (2016). High electricity demand in the Northeast US: PJM reliability network and peaking unit impacts on air quality. Environmental Science and Technology50(15), 8375-8384. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b01697

Gan, C. M., Hogrefe, C., Mathur, R., Pleim, J., Xing, J., Wong, D-C., Gilliam, R., Pouliot, G., & Wei, C. (2016).  Assessment of the effects of horizontal grid resolution on long-term air quality trends using coupled WRF-CMAQ simulations. Atmospheric Environment, 132, 207-216. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.02.036

Garcia, V., Cooter, E., Crooks, J., Hayes, B., Hinckley, B., Murphy, M., Wade, T., & Xing, X. (2016). Using a coupled modelling system to examine the impacts of increased corn production on groundwater quality and human health. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 113-117. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_18

Hang, J., Lin, M., Wong, D.C., Wang, X., Wang, B., Buccolieri, R. & 2016. On the influence of viaduct and ground heating on pollutant dispersion in 2D street canyons and toward single-sided ventilated buildings. Atmospheric Pollution Research7(5), 817-832). doi: 10.1016/j.apr.2016.04.009

Heath, N., Pleim, J.E., Gilliam, R.C., & Kang, D. (2016). A simple lightning assimilation technique for improving retrospective WRF simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems8, 1806-1824. doi: 10.1002/2016MS000735

Hogrefe, C., Pouliot, G., Xing, J., Flemming, J., Roselle, S., Mathur, R., & Galmarini, S. (2016). Global and regional modeling of long-range transport and intercontinental source-receptor linkages. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXICV, 245-250. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_40

Kelly, J., Baker, K., Nolte, C., Napelenok, S., Keene, W., & Pszenny, A. (2016). Simulating the phase partitioning of NH3, HNO3, and HCl with size-resolved particles over northern Colorado in winter. Atmospheric Environment, 131: 67-77. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.01.049

Kioutsioukis, I., Im, U., Solazzo, E., Bianconi, R., Badia, A., ... , & Galmarini, S. (2016). Insights into the deterministic skill of air quality ensembles from the analysis of AQMEII data. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 15629-15652. doi: 10.5194/acp-16-15629-2016

Li, Y., Schichtel, B., Walker, J., Schwede, D., Chen, X., Lehmann, C.M.B., … , & Collett Jr, J.L. (2016). Increasing importance of deposition of reduced nitrogen in the United States. PNAS113(21), 5876-5879. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525736113

Marais, E.A., Jacob, D.J., Jimenez, J.L., Campuzano-Jost, P., Day, D.A., Hu, W., … , & McNeill, V.F. (2016.) Aqueous-phase mechanism for secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene: application to the southeast United States and co-benefit of SO2 emission controls. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 1603-1618. doi: 10.5194/acp-16-1603-2016

Mathur, R., Xing, J., Napelenok, S., Pleim, J., Hogrefe, C., Wong, D., Gan, C. M., & Kang, D. W. (2016). Multiscale modeling of multi-decadal trends in ozone and precursor species across the Northern Hemisphere and the United States. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 239-243. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_39

Napelenok, S. L. & Luecken, D. (2016). Sensitivity-based VOC reactivity calculation. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 233-237. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_38

Nowlan, C., Lu, X., Leitch, J., Chance, K., González Abad, G., Lu, C., … Al-Saadi. (2016). Nitrogen dioxide observations from the Geostationary Trace gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GeoTASO) airborne instrument: Retrieval algorithm and measurements during DISCOVER-AQ Texas 2013. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 9(6), 2647-2668. doi: 10.5194/amt-9-2647-2016

Pleim, J., Gilliam, R., Appel, W., & Ran, L. (2016). Recent advances in modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer and land surface in the coupled WRF-CMAQ Model. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 391-396. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_64

Porter, P.S., Rao, S. T., Hogrefe, C., Gego, E., & Mathur, R. (2016). Metamodels for Ozone: Comparison of Three Estimation Techniques. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, 537-542. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_86

Pouliot, G., Rao, V., McCarty, J.L., Soja, A. (2016). Development of the crop residue and rangeland burning in the 2014 National Emissions Inventory using information from multiple sources. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 67(5), 613-622. doi: 10.1080/10962247.2016.1268982

Ran, L. M., Pleim, J., Gilliam, R., Hogrefe, C., Binkowski, F., & Band, L. (2016). Application and Evaluation of MODIS LAI, FPAR, and Albedo Products in the WRF/CMAQ System. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 619-624. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_100

Rasool, Q. Z., Zhang, R., Lash, B., Cohan, D. S., Cooter, E. J., Bash, J. O., & Lamsal, L. N. (2016). Geoscientific Model Development, 9(9), 3177-3197. doi: 10.5194/gmd-9-3177-2016

Sarwar, G., Kang, D., Foley, K., Schwede, D., Gantt, B., & Mathur, R. (2016). Technical note: Examining ozone deposition over seawater. Atmospheric Environment141, 255-262. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.06.072

Seltzer, K., Nolte, C., Spero, T., Appel, K.W., & Xing, J. (2016). Evaluation of near surface ozone and particulate matter in air quality simulations driven by dynamically downscaled historical meteorological fields. Atmospheric Environment, 138, 42-54. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.05.010

Spero, T., Nolte, C., Bowden, J., Mallard, M., & Herwehe, J. (2016). The impact of incongruous lake temperatures on regional climate extremes downscaled from the CMIP5 archive using the WRF model. J. Clim., 29(2), 839-853. doi: 10.1175/jcli-d-15-0233.1

Wong, D. C., Cai, C. X., Pleim, J., Mathur, R., & Murphy, M. S. (2016). Validation of the WRF-CMAQ Two-Way Model with Aircraft Data and High Resolution MODIS Data in the CA 2008 Wildfire Case. Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV, 531-535. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_85

Woody, M., Baker, K., Hayes, P., Jimenez, J., Koo, B., & Pye, H. (2016). Understanding sources of organic aerosol during CalNex-2010 using the CMAQ-VBS. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 4081-4100doi: 10.5194/acp-16-4081-2016

Woody, M., Wong, H.W., West, J.J., Arunachalam, S. (2016). Multiscale predictions of aviation attributatable PM2.5 for U.S. airports modeled using CMAQ with plume-in-grid and an aircraft specific 1-D emission model. Atmospheric Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.10.016

Xing, J., Mathur, R., Pleim, J., Hogrefe, C., Wang, J.D., Gan, C.M., Sarwar, G., Wong, D.C., & McKeen, S. (2016). Representing the effects of stratosphere-troposphere exchange on 3-D O3 distributions in chemistry transport models using a potential vorticity-based parameterization. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 10865-10877. doi: 10.5194/acp-16-10865-2016

Xing, J., Wang, J.D., Mathur, R., Pleim, J., Wang, S.X., Hogrefe, C., Gan, C.M., Wong, D.C., & Hao, J.M. (2016). Unexpected benefits of reducing aerosol cooling effects. Environmental Science and Technology, 50(14), 7527-7534. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00767

Zheng, Y., Alapaty, K., Herwehe, J., Del Genio, A., & Niyogi, D. (2016). Improving high-resolution weather forecasts using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with an updated Kain-Fritsch scheme. Mon. Weather Rev., 144(3), 833-860. doi: 10.1175/mwr-d-15-0005.1

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