What's New at the OTAG for October to December of 1996

Entries between July and October 1996

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Ontario Emission Reduction Trading Pilot, w/Michigan: Greetings from above the top of the US map. Above the Midwest and Northeast States, a pilot project is underway to develop a practical and credib...; Submitted by Jantzi Brian on 9/30/96

Brian Jantzi has registered: Member of Trading/Incentives Workgroup. International trade.; Submitted by Jantzi Brian on 9/30/96

Ben Hartsell has registered: Air Quality Analysis
Model Evaluation
Ozone Precursor and Tracer Species Measurements; Submitted by Hartsell Ben on 9/26/96

What are the nonattainment regions where transport of regional ozone is significant?: Tranport of regional ozone is only significant in New Jersey; Submitted by Schichtel Bret on 9/24/96

Eric Edgerton has registered: Air Quality Analysis,
Major Field Studies/Experiments,
Model Evaluation,
NOy Measurement Techniques; Submitted by Edgerton Eric on 9/24/96

Spatial Pattern of Daily Maximum Ozone over the OTAG Region: The OTAG region is surrounded by tropospheric ozone concentrations of 30-40 ppb and the average ozone within OTAG is about 60 ppb. The main OTAG ozone...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/23/96

Weekly Pattern of Ozone over the OTAG Region: The number of ozone exceedences ( >120 ppb ) over the OTAG region are three times higher on Fridays then on Sundays. This suggests that the current we...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/23/96

VT DEC Air Trajectory Analysis of Long-Term Ozone Climatology: A summary of the applications of backward trajectory analyses conducted for the OTAG Air Quality Analysis Workgroup by VT DEC. The approach employs th...; Submitted by Poirot Richard on 9/23/96

bob collom has registered: Effective use of science in policy (control) decisions.
Co-chair of Air Quality Analysis Workgroup (OTAG).; Submitted by collom bob on 9/19/96

Jim Nichols has registered: Newspaper reporter; Submitted by Nichols Jim on 9/17/96

Animations Comparing the UAM-V Basecase D2 Model Runs to Observerations: Animations comparing the UAM-V basecase D2 model runs to observerations have been added to the web site; Submitted by Schichtel Bret on 9/17/96

What is the distance over which emissions influence nonattainment sites?: The lifetime of an ozone molecule in the atmosphere is inversely related in a nonlinearly way to the amount of fresh emissions encountered along its j...; Submitted by Wolff George on 9/17/96

Pattern of 8-Hour Daily Maximum Ozone over the OTAG Region: The spatial pattern of 8hr and 1hr day max ozone are compared. On the average, the 8hr day max is about 85% of the 1hr day max ozone. The 8hr standard...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/17/96

OTAG Measures of Non-Attainment: My first reaction to this question is that it has little to do with OTAG. OTAG is concerned with ozone transport and its potential for contributing to...; Submitted by West Jeffrey on 9/16/96

OTAG AQA Workgroup Report - Second Draft

This is the second draft outline of the OTAG Air Quality Analysis Workgroup Final Report.

VOLUME I: POLICY IMPLICATIONS

VOLUME II: SUMMARY ...

Submitted by Stoeckenius Till on 9/14/96

Till Stoeckenius has registered: Summary and integration of AQA Workgroup activities.
Statistical data analyses for environmental management (routine air
quality and meteorologi...; Submitted by Stoeckenius Till on 9/13/96

Robert Carter has registered: Emissions trading, specifically the impact and inter-relation of open market and budget approaches to achieving the ozone standard; interests in emiss...; Submitted by Carter Robert on 9/13/96

Randy Finch has registered: Postprocessing of UAM-V model output data.; Submitted by Finch Randy on 9/12/96

Re: Zone of Influence: I think the proposition that both precursor emissions and ozone itself originating in areas as far away as 350 to 400 miles affect ozone forming poten...; Submitted by Wishinski Paul on 9/11/96

For how many days do airmasses carrying ozone and/or ozone precursors tend to persist within the OTAG domain?: 2-4 days, depending on temperature, rain, etc.; Submitted by Guinnup David on 9/11/96

Regional ozone levels: In general, maximum peak ozone levels in and around major urban areas exceed
those in more rural areas. In contrast, minimum peak ozone
levels ...; Submitted by Guinnup David on 9/11/96

Zone of Influence: Climatologically, it appears that 350-400 miles represents a
reasonable estimate of how far downwind one might expect the
emissions from one are...; Submitted by Guinnup David on 9/11/96

OTAG Modeling Data Clearinghouse: The OTAG/Modeling Data Clearinghouse provides central data management to promote the exchange of data used by the Ozone Transport Assessment Group (OT...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/10/96

FACA - Home Page. Regulating Smog and Particle Air Pollution: A New Approach: Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), EPA has formed a group under the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee to obtain advice ...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/10/96

AQA Workgroup Confernece call, September, 11, 1PM: The Air Quality Analysis Workgroup of OTAG will hold a conference call an Wednesday, Sept. 11,1996, at 1:00 PM (EDT). To participate, call 703-736-744...; Submitted by Guinnup David on 9/5/96

Robert Imhoff has registered: Analysis of UAM-V model performance issues. Transport of ozone and
its precursors.; Submitted by Imhoff Robert on 9/4/96

Steve Porter has registered: Time series analysis and statistical analysis of ozone data.; Submitted by Porter Steve on 9/4/96

Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Air Quality Website: Website of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Quality.; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 9/3/96

Rudy Zsolway has registered: Ozone and PAMS data analysis and related issues; Submitted by Zsolway Rudy on 8/28/96

Contribute or comment on OTAG/AQA policy issues!: The OTAG technical activities are entering the home stretch. During the August 22 meeting, a number of concerns were raised that the Air Quality Analy...; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 8/28/96

EPA's Technology Transfer Network: Web version of the TTN Bulletin Board. Includes AIRS, OTAG, CHIEF, CAAA and other active areas; Submitted by Husar Rudolf on 8/28/96

Laura Zlendich has registered: To study ozone levels in the upper stratosphere and its effects.; Submitted by Zlendich Laura on 8/11/96

MCNC - North Carolina Supercomputing Center: The goal of the MCNC-Environmental Programs Group is to enhance the ability of the environmental community to perform assessment and impact predic...; Submitted by Alter Lee on 8/9/96

Jeff Vukovich has registered: Air quality, emissions and meteorological modeling. Yes..all 3 of them.; Submitted by Vukovich Jeff on 8/9/96

Ground Level Ozone that causes visual damage on ornamental plants: I was wondering if there have been any studies concerning the above topic. Please contact me at darmanina@aestor.am.doe.ca.; Submitted by RAUTIOLA AIMO on 8/9/96

David Long has registered: Submitted by Long David on 8/7/96

Re: Attribution for comments: The attributions have been added to each of the comments which were missing them. The problem arose from an effort to speed up the submission process,...; Submitted by Webmaster on 8/3/96

Proposed Agenda for August 22, 1996: August 22, 1996 -- Cherry Hill, NJ ....10am-12noon AQA Workgroup -- possible presenters include: Howard Feldman, Jeff West, Rich Scheffe, Bill Ch...; Submitted by Guinnup David on 8/2/96

Workgroup conference call on August 7: I would like to schedule an Air Quality Analysis Workgroup conference call on August 7 at 3pm Eastern time. The agenda will be devoted to 1) debri...; Submitted by Guinnup David on 8/1/96

Pekka Tuovinen has registered: Follow-up of ozone research, health and ecological effects,
and means to limit ozone formation (VOCs & NOx emission reductions),
the role of tr...; Submitted by Tuovinen Pekka on 7/30/96

Clean Air Power Initiative (CAPI): Home page for briefing materials, white paper, analyses of the clean air power inititative. CAPI is an integrated examination of air quality regul...; Submitted by Bachmann John on 7/28/96

Attribution for comments: I note that many of the comments in reponse to the suggestion
of Mark Wolcott on air quality trends have no attribution.
I would suggest that, ...; Submitted by Alan Hansen on 7/12/96

Source Region of Influence presentation slides to the AQA workgroup on June 4: Submitted by Bret Schichtel on 7/3/96

Statement on Integrating Air Quality Analysis and Models: Integrating Models and Observations for Sound Air Quality Management Practice -- Much emphasis has been placed on the complementary and integra...; Submitted by David Guinnup on 7/3/96

HY-SPLIT and CAPITA Monte Carlo Model Back Trajectory Comparison: A qualitative comparison between back trajectories generated from the HY-SPLIT and CAPITA Monte Carlo model; Submitted by Bret Schichtel on 7/3/96

Gary Moore has registered: Ozone modeling and analysis; meteorological processes; Submitted by Gary Moore on 7/3/96

Re: OTAG Air Quality Trends: The first step is to have air quality data in order to measure progress. Therefore, we need to continue to advocate the establishment and long-term m...; Submitted by John Jansen on 7/3/96

Lee Alter has registered: Support state participation in NARSTO-Northeast. Generally interested in emission inventories and the integration of emission-based and observation-ba...; Submitted by Lee Alter on 7/2/96

Next OTAG AQA Workgroup Call July 16 at 1:00 EDT: The main purpose of this call is to finalize the agenda for July 24. Status of other ongoing efforts will also be discussed.; Submitted by David Guinnup on 7/1/96

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