| Simulation Period | July 2012 |
| Domain | 312 km × 312 km (78 × 78) |
| Horizontal Resolution | 4 km |
| Vertical Resolution | 1 km |
| Initial and Boundary Conditions | Clean air |
| Aerosol Module | Sixth-generation modal CMAQ aerosol model with extensions for sea salt emissions and thermodynamics; includes a new formulation for secondary organic aerosol yields (aero6) |
| Photolytic Rate | Clear-sky photolysis rates off-line using the CMAQ program JPROC; provide daily photolysis rate look-up tables to CCTM |
| Chemistry Solver | Rosenbrock chemistry solver (ros3) |
| Cloud Module | Cloud processor that uses ACTM methodology to compute convective mixing with heterogeneous chemistry for AERO6 (cloud_acm_ae6) |
| Windblown Dust | None |
| Lighting NOx | No lightning, no emissions |