Pamela I. Lara, Ph.D.
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Modeled vs. Observed - Surface Ozone Summer 2022
Howard University (HU)
This project focused on the HU-DC main campus as urban location and the HU-Beltsville campus as rural location
Summer 2022
Predicted data from the aqmv7 model as well as observed data from the McMillan-DC station and MDE-Beltsville station (EPA API search engine:https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_api.html#daily) was for July and August of 2022, representing the Summer of 2022
Lead researcher
I am the main researcher on this specific project
Ozone and PM2.5
modeled vs. observed: a time-series comparison
I am working on this project between the Howard University-Beltsville Campus and the Air Quality Model -AQM- group from NOAA.
The project consists in comparing the aqmv7 predicted tropospheric ozone vs. the observed ozone for the urban area of Washington DC and the rural area of Beltsville, MD. The McMillan site is located at the McMillan Reservoir, across from Howard University. The Maryland Department of the Environment, MDE, has a supersite at Howard University Beltsville Campus. The ozone and other chem/met data was obtained from these two sites reports to EPA.
My research showed that modeled and observed ozone data for the DC area are pretty much in accord, with a slight model-ozone overprediction of abound 7%. However, this is not the same for Beltsville, MD, as the model-ozone overprediction is above 60%
