Abbreviations: A2, A1b, A1Fi, B1, and B2, the names given
to the SRES scenarios of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions used to drive
the climate models; AQM, air quality model; BVOC, biogenic volatile
organic compounds; CMAQ, Community Multiscale Air Quality Model; CMM5,
University of Illinois climate extension of the Penn State/National
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Mesoscale Model, version 5; GCM,
general circulation model; GISS, Goddard Institute for Space Studies;
JJA, June, July, August; Grell and Kain-Fritsch, convective
parameterizations in the regional climate models; MM5, Penn State/NCAR
Mesoscale Model, version 5; PCM, parallel climate model; RADM2, Regional
Atmospheric Deposition Model (2nd generation); RAQM, regional air
quality model; RCM, regional climate model; SAPRC, statewide air
pollution research center; SAPRC99, one of the chemical mechanism
packages used in the CMAQ model. |