GURME Workshop

Monday - August 10

(SEMARNAT Auditorium, Ave. Revolución 1425, Colonia Tlacopac, Delegación Ãlvaro Obregón)

Workshop Inauguration and Fundamentals of Air Quality Modeling

Time	Activity	Presenter
08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-11:00	Inaugural Session	Chair: Luisa Molina (MCE2)
09:00-09:30		Ana Maria Contreras (Dir. Gen. for Air Quality Management / RETC, Semarnat)
		Michel Rosengaus (Director, SMN)
		Liisa Jalkanen (Chief, Atm. Env. Res. Div, WMO)
		Adrian Fernandez (President, INE/Semarnat)
09:30-11:00	Overview/Context Talks
09:30	GURME Overview	Liisa Jalkanen (Chief, Atm. Env. Res. Div, WMO)
10:00	Growing Importance of AQ Modeling	Gregory Carmichael (U-Iowa, GURME SAG Chair)
10:30	AQ Management: Mexican Perspective	Ramiro Barrios (Director for Air Quality, DGGCARETC-Semarnat)
11:00-11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30-12:15	Workshop Details	Chair: Luisa Molina (MCE2)
11:30	Overview of Workshop	Gregory Carmichael (U-Iowa)
	Introduction of Workshop Participants
12:15-18:00	AQ Modeling Fundamentals	Chair: Luisa Molina (MCE2)
12:15	Overview 1 - AQ Models	Gregory Carmichael (U-Iowa)
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	AQ Modeling Fundamentals (cont.)	Chair: Luisa Molina (MCE2)
14:00	Overview 2 - AQ Meteorology	Ernesto Caetano (UNAM)
14:40	Overview 3 - Emissions (Mexico City)	Saúl Rodríguez Rivera
15:20	Emissions (Santiago)	Marcelo Mena (UNAB)
15:35	Overview 4 - Ambient Air Quality Monitoring	Armando Retama (GDF/SMA)
16:15-16:45	COFFEE BREAK
16:45	Overview 5 - Photochemistry	Gustavo Sosa (IMP)
17:25	Overview 6 -Urban Growth/Land-use Changes	Manuel Suarez (UNAM)
18:00	DOCUMENTARY - Megacity: MILAGRO in Mexico City
19:00-21:00	RECEPTION (SEMARNAT Lobby)

Tuesday - August 11

(CECAL, Avenida San Jerónimo No. 458, P.B., Col. Jardines del Pedregal)

	WRF Tutorial
09:00	WRF Overview	Cindy Bruyere
09:15	WRF and WPS: Compile	Dave Gill
09:30	WPS: Set up and Run	Cindy Bruyere
10:15	WRF: Set up and Run	Dave Gill
11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	Nesting: Set up and Run	Dave Gill
12:15	Post Processing Tools: NCL	Cindy Bruyere
13:00-14:00	LUNCH
14:00-15:30	Practical Sessions with Provided Cases	(Bruyere Gill Grell Peckham Others)
15:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:30	Practical Session with User Cases	Bruyere Gill Grell Peckham Others
17:30	Question and Answer Session	Bruyere Gill Grell Peckham Others
18:00	ADJOURN

Wednesday - August 12

(CECAL, Avenida San Jerónimo No. 458, P.B., Col. Jardines del Pedregal)

	WRF-Chem Tutorial
09:00	WRF/Chem Overview	Gerog Grell
09:30	Gas Phase Chemistry in WRF/Chem	Rainer Schmitz
10:00	Introduction to aerosol modeling in WRF/Chem	Cindy Bruyere
10:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	Setting up and running WRF/Chem	Steven Peckham
12:15	Practical Session I: WRF/Chem Basics	G. Grell S. Peckham others
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	Excursion
	Option A: Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Network (RAMA) Headquarters Mexico City. D.F. (Hosted by Secretaría del Medio Ambiente del Gobierno del Distrito Federal (GDF))
	Option B: Cuicuilco Pyramid Archaeological Ruins Mexico City, D.F.

Thursday - August 13

(CECAL, Avenida San Jerónimo No. 458, P.B., Col. Jardines del Pedregal)

	WRF-Chem Tutorial
09:00	WRF/Chem Practical Session I: WRF/Chem basics provided cases	S. Peckham G. Grell others
10:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	WRF/Chem practical session II on various aspects of the modeling system including more advanced topics such as: Preparation of special emissions data sets (RETRO/EDGAR wildfires) modifying the chemistry registry adding output variables setting up special model runs.	S. Peckham G. Grell others
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	WRF/Chem practical session II continuing	S. Peckham G. Grell others
15:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	WRF-Chem Practical Session II continuing	S. Peckham G. Grell others
17:30	Questions/Wrap up for the day
18:00	ADJOURN

Friday - August 14

(CECAL, Avenida San Jerónimo No. 458, P.B., Col. Jardines del Pedregal)

	Applications of AQModels	Chair: Luisa Molina (MCE2)
09:00	AQ Forecasting 1. AQ Forecasting 2. "What if" Scenarios	G. Carmichael (U-Iowa) A. Garcia (UNAM)
10:00	AQ Modeling in Management Evaluation of emission control strategies	V.H. Paramo (Director AQ Management SMA/GDF)
11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	AQ Modeling in Analysis 1. Emission improvements using satellite observations 2. Lessons learned from MILAGRO 3. Evaluation of model performance	G. Carmichael (U-Iowa) S. Madronich (NCAR) M. Mena (UNAB)
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	AQ Impacts 1. Health and agriculture impacts 2. BenMap model for health impacts - Practical training exercises	L. Jalkanen (WMO) G. Carmichael M. Mena
16:00	Questions/Wrap up
17:00	CLOSING

The WRF User's Guide:
Available online at:
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/docs/user_guide_V3.1/ARWUsersGuideV3.pdf

The WRF/Chem User's Guide:
Available online at:
http://ruc.fsl.noaa.gov/wrf/WG11/Users_guide.pdf

WRF-Chem Tutorials
-Presentations Steven Peckham
WRF/Chem: A Quick Review Of How To Set-Up & Run
-Presentations Georg Grell
-Mexico City WRF/Chem tutorial
-Presentations Rainer Schmitz
Descripción de la química de WRF/Chem
Introduction to aerosol modeling with WRF/Chem