Implementation of an Ensemble Kalman Filter in the Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ Model v5.1) for Data Assimilation of Ground-level PM2.5: Model Simulation Outputs

This data sets are model outputs from CMAQ simulations. The output contains only PM2.5 variable after combining related aerosol species. File format is netCDF binary. File naming convention for Domain 1 (D1) is D1_EXP_DATE_TIME_e000.nc where EXP is the control experiment (CTR) or the assimilation experiments (DA_icbc), DATE means YYYYMMDD format date, TIME indicates 2 digits UTC time, and e000 represents ensemble mean result. Also, file naming convention for Domain 2 (D2) is D2_EXP_CASE_DATE_TIME_e000 where EXP is the control experiment (CTR) or the assimilation experiments (DA_ic and DA_icbc), CASE is the simulation cases for ANL or PRD, DATE means YYYYMMDD format date, TIME indicates 2 digits UTC time, and e000 represents ensemble mean result. For the processed and assimilated observation data in this study for D1 and D2, the file names are D1_OBS_DATA_YYYYMMDDhh.txt and D2_OBS_DATA_YYYYMMDDhh.txt, respectively, where YYYYMMDD is date format and hh is UTC.