Towards the next generation of air quality forecast models with NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid-Refresh model coupled to chemistry (HRRR-Chem)

Jordan Schnell1, Ravan Ahmadov2, Brian C McDonald3, Megan Bela4, Rebecca Schwantes3, Jian He5, Colin Harkins6, Meng Li7, Mackenzie Arnold8, Barry Baker9, Joseph Olson10, Wayne M Angevine11, Brian Jamison12, R. Bradley Pierce13, Matthew Mitchell Coggon14, Gregory J Frost15, Eric James2, Curtis Alexander16 and Georg Grell17, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA ESRL Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)CU/CIRES and NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA ESRL/CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (7)NOAA ESRL/CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (9)NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Chemical Modeling and Emissions Group, College Park, United States, (10)NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)CIRES/CU NOAA, Boulder, United States, (12)NOAA ESRL/CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, (13)NOAA/NESDIS, Center for Satellite Application and Research, Madison, United States, (14)CIRES and NOAA Chemical Science Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (15)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, United States, (16)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (17)NOAA ESRL/GSL, Boulder, United States