PM Transboundary Impacts Based on Ambient Data Analysis

US/Canada Workshop on Air Quality Modeling for Particulate Matter

Toronto, Canada, 9/21-22/99


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Table of Contents

Afternoon Agenda

Data Analysis Helps

Episodes Lead to Data Merging

Data Merging is Hard

The Data Problem

Placeholder (Bob Vet on NAtChem)

US vs Canadian Approaches

CAPITA Ozone & Surface Met

Ozone Sorted by Surface Winds

Example OTAG Model Evaluation

North American Integrated PM-2.5 data

PM Data Gathering, Integration, Analysis

Visibility as PM surrogate & Indicator

Placeholder for B. Vet, M. Benjamin, J. Brook

Data Gaps & Future Directions

Example Real-Time Ozone Exchange & Map

7/16-17/99 Ozone + PM Haze Episode

7/16-17/99 TEOM & Light Scattering

Canadian Surface Met is Hard to Get

Canadian HTM Trajectories for 9/17/99

Example Output from NE RAMS

Example from NAAPS Global Aerosol Model

The "Tail" of the Episode

CAMNET Sees a Hazy Day

Author: Rich Poirot

Email: richpo@dec.anr.state.vt.us

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Related Links:

Toward a More Efficient Transboundary Exchange of Air Quality Data

CAPITA '99 Progress Report on 03 & PM Activities

Estimation of US Influence on Mean PM10, PM2.5 and Particle Sulphate Concentrations in Eastern Canada

August 1995 Forest Fire Impacts in New England and Atlantic Canada

Status of NEG/ECP Acid Rain Workgroup Activities

EPA Fine Particle Data Analysis Virtual Workbook

Transboundary Air Pollution Stagnation Episode: February 9-13, 1998 (NE US Overview)

Air Pollution in the Province of Quebec during the February, 1998 Stagnation Event

NAtChem-Particulate Matter Database Catalogue for the 1998-Feb Episode

US PM and gaseous data files for February, 1998

On the use ASOS Visibility Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring: Truncation of Archived Data

7/16-17/99 Northeast Fine Particle and Ozone "Haze" Episode

Naval Research Laboratory/Monterey Aerosol Page