Compare AIRPACT PM2.5 with HRRR-Smoke during wildfire season

[vonw]

From Dave Turner at NOAA:

Hi Von,

HRRR-smoke is a product of my lab, but not from the renewable energy (ASRE) program. Ravan Ahmadov is the primary developer. It is a high visibility and important product for the NWS, and I would love to have multiple ways to evaluate it.

I think it would be super to compare the two models, especially if we can pull in PM2.5 and/or CALIPSO data too. It might make a good undergraduate or MS level project, if you have an interested student. I might be able to secure a small amount of funding for this, if we can develop a good science plan (and if the current presidents budget makes it through congress)...

Dave

[farrenthorpe]

This was done already. See this paper: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/14427/2021/

[farrenthorpe]

If you do this comparison in the future, keep in mind that the BlueSky process persists fire locations that are 3 days old. This can lead to some strange comparisons.