Geoscientific Model Development Discussions www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net 1991-9611 1991-962X 2 2 2009 10.5194/gmdd-2-1449-2009 http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/2/1449/2009/ http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/2/1449/2009/gmdd-2-1449-2009.html http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/2/1449/2009/gmdd-2-1449-2009.pdf 1449 1486 2009-12-15 The Meteorology-Chemistry Interface Processor (MCIP) for the CMAQ modeling system T. L. Otte otte.tanya@epa.gov J. E. Pleim US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system, a state-of-the-science regional air quality modeling system developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency, is being used for a variety of environmental modeling problems including regulatory applications, air quality forecasting, evaluation of emissions control strategies, process-level research, and interactions of global climate change and regional air quality. The Meteorology-Chemistry Interface Processor (MCIP) is a vital piece of software within the CMAQ modeling system that serves to, as best as possible, maintain dynamic consistency between the meteorological model and the chemical transport model. MCIP acts as both a post-processor to the meteorological model and a pre-processor to the CMAQ modeling system. MCIP's functions are to ingest the meteorological model output fields in their native formats, perform horizontal and vertical coordinate transformations, diagnose additional atmospheric fields, define gridding parameters, and prepare the meteorological fields in a form required by the CMAQ modeling system. This paper provides an updated overview of MCIP, documenting the scientific changes that have been made since it was first released as part of the CMAQ modeling system in 1998. 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