Overview of GCAP Project October 12, 2007Harvard University.ppt

GCAP Phase 2: How will global change affect U.S. air quality and mercury deposition rates? Basic blueprint for GCAP project GCAP Phase 1 Publications Streets et al., On the future of carbonaceous aerosol emissions, JGR, 2004. Mickley et al., Effects of future climate change on regional air pollution episodes in the United States, GRL, 2004. Liao et al., Role of climate change in global predictions of future tropospheric ozone and aerosols, JGR, 2005. Rind et al., Effects of resolution and model physics on tracer transports in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies general circulation models, JGR, 2007. Wu et al., Why are there large differences between models in global budgets of tropospheric ozone?, JGR, 2007. Liao et al., Biogenic secondary organic aerosol over the United States: Comparison of climatological simulations with observations, JGR, 2007. Wu et al., Effects of 2000-2050 global change on ozone air quality in the United States, submitted, 2006. Wu et al., Effect of 2000-2050 global change on background ozone in the United States, in progress, 2007. Fu et al., MICS-Asia II: Modeling gaseous pollutants and evaluating an advanced modeling system over east Asia, Atmos. Env., 2007 GCAP Phase 2 flow plan. GCAP Phase 2 flow plan. * Overview of GCAP Project October 12, 2007 Harvard University PI: Jacob Co-Is: Byun, Fu, Mickley, Seinfeld, Streets, Rind Also: Wu, Liao, Lam, Li, Yoshitomi, Smith-Downey, Pye, Kim, Lerner, Leibensperger 2000-2050 change in climate 2000-2050 change in pollutant emissions BC energy emissions 2000-2050 change in U.S. air quality Ozone episode, July 2007 Precursor emissions from Streets archive met fields GEOS-CHEM Global chemistry model CMAQ Regional chemistry model 1950 2000 2025 2050 2075 2100 GISS general circulation model Spin-up MM5 Mesoscale model archive chemistry archive met fields changing greenhouse gases GISS GCM 1950-2050 transient climate