In this paper and the companion paper by Giorgi and Visconti a two-dimensional mesoscale meteorological model is coupled to an aerosol model to investigate possible mesoscale effects of nuclear war fires. The meteorological model used in this study is a two-dimensional analog of the Penn State/NCAR mesoscale model with enhancements in the areas of radiative transfer, surface physics, and moisture physics. The aerosol model solves equations for the hygroscopic and hydrophobic fractions of particulate material and includes particle transport, sedimentation, dry-deposition, in-cloud and below-cloud scavenging, and a first order term accounting for aerosol aging. In this paper the meteorological model and the aerosol model are first described and then applied, as an illustrative example, to a simulation of the development of sea-breezelike circulations induced by contrasts in soil moisture available for evaporation. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989