Background Air Quality Modeling Results
CAMx Base 2011 US Background Simulation
We ran a CAMx sensitivity simulation offderived offrom the 3SAQS 2011 Base version A CAMx (CAMx_3SAQS_Base11a) configuration to estimate background air quality in the U.S.
The CAMx 2011 U.S. Background simulation (CAMx_3SAQS_Base11a_USBG) is an emissions sensitivity in which all anthropogenic emissions sources in the U.S. are removed. The only emissions included in the USBG simulation include:
- Canadian and Mexican anthropogenic sources
- Domain-wide biogenic sources
- Domain-wide windblown dust
- Seasalt
- Lightning NOx