Forecasting Smoke Transport and Smoke-Weather Interactions using NOAA’s High-Resolution Coupled Numerical Weather Prediction Models

Ravan Ahmadov1, Eric James2, Jonana Romero-Alvarez2, Haiqin Li2, Jordan Schnell3, Georg Grell4, Laura Thapa5, Ming Hu6, Curtis Alexander7, Hongli Wang8, Amanda Back9, Anton Kliewer10, Barry Baker11, Xiaoyang Zhang12, Fangjun Li13, Shobha Kondragunta14, Ivan Andras Csiszar15, Marina Tsidulko16, Siyuan Wang17 and Jacob R Carley18, (1)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)CU/CIRES and NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA ESRL Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NOAA ESRL/GSL, Boulder, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (6)CIRES/University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, United States, (7)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)CIRA/Colorado State University and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere @NOAA/OAR/ESRL Global Systems Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Chemical Modeling and Emissions Group, College Park, United States, (12)Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Brookings, United States, (13)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Geography and Geospatial Sciences, Brookings, SD, United States, (14)NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (15)NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, United States, (16)IMSG (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR), College Park, MD, United States, (17)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (18)NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States