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Welcome to the CGRER Forecast Webpage for PACDEX EXPERIMENT

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The PACific Dust Experiment (PACDEX) field campaign is taking place from April to May, 2007.
Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research at the Universioty of Iowa
is providing daily chemical weather forecasts in support of this experiment.


University of Iowa's STEM-2k3 regional chemical transport model are performed in 50km domain.
The Weather Research & Forecasting model (WRF) provides meteorological fields to drive these calculations.

Interactive Forecast Viewers

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Trans-Pacific 50km Tracer
Pacdex Vis5D files

If you want to study current or previous scenarios instead of flight planning, previous forecasts may be more helpful.

Additional forecast products can be found at the links below:

FORECAST DATA FILES

Atmospheric Brown Cloud PACDEX Project Page

RIAM-CFORS Forecast Products
Pacdex Special Files


Chinese Cites Air Quality Index


Please contact Dr. Gregory Carmichael, Bhupesh Adhikary, Sarika Kulkarni, or Marcelo Mena for further analyzed products.Phone number

The University of Iowa Center for Regional and Environmental Research