The Atlas presents basic information about ozone air pollution in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA. Production of the Atlas was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. The Atlas is MARAMA's first PAMS data analysis report.
A new domain has been opened on the NearDat web-site. It is intended to be a forum for regional modeling efforts directed toward assessing mesoscale pollutant transport. The Web site is being initiated to foster more active discussion of interstate and cross-boundary air quality impact assessment methods for use in PSD source permit modeling. The NESCAUM Modeling Committee Class I Area Workgroup has been examining a protocol to standardize how Class I Area impact assessment is done in the NESCAUM Region. The current material posted on this new web location pertains to ongoing modeling and model protocol development which is being done related to the Class I areas in the NESCAUM Region. Tools currently being examined are the MESOPUFF II Model and the CALPUFF model. It is not intended that these models be the only ones examined in this forum. We hope that in addition to these mesoscale forward dispersion puff models, other techniques such as chemical mass balance (CMB), multivariate statistical modeling techniques, and trajectory models will be the subject of future discussion. This site's primary purposes are therefore 1) To serve as a communication link for members of the NESCAUM Modeling Committee Class I Area Workgroup, and 2) To serve as a means to encourage exchange of practical information for users of a variety of regional scale air quality impact analysis tools.
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PaulWishinski
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Wishinski Paul
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11/26/97
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NEARDAT.Reports.PaulWishinski
