Monitoring Air Pollution Transport EPA Office of Research and Development's Advanced Monitoring Initiative (AMI) and Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS): Improving our Ability to Understand the Impact of Poor Air Quality on Human Health and Well Being Issue: Air quality management decisions and policies will be expanding from local and regional scales to include continental and international scales. Response: By integrating local and regional observational capabilities, an understanding of air quality will begin to emerge on a local-to-global basis. Outcome: Through an enhanced observational system integrated with modeling, indicators, and decision support tools, data will be transformed into new information to help the public avoid harmful exposures and to help air quality managers cope more effectively with air pollution episodes over the short and long terms. Global Scale Research Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) Accountability Assessment: An Integrated Model- Measurement Approach to Assess Synoptic-Scale Transport of Sulfate Aerosols Fred Dimmick, EPA/Office of Research and Development Alan Rush and Rich Scheffe, EPA/Office of Air and Radiation Air quality standards are set to protect people from potential harmful exposure to air pollutants. Air quality can be assessed by examining the number of days that a standard is exceeded within a monitored area. This map presents air quality data for five regional monitoring areas with monitors located on both sides of the US and Mexican border. Integration and Evaluation of Global Emissions Inventories in the Networked Environmental Information System for Global Emissions Inventories (NEISGEI) Framework Terry Keating, EPA/Office of Air and Radiation Stefan Falke and Rudolf Huser: Washington University, St. Louis Gregory Stella, Alpine Geophysics Ground Level Ozone Concentrations Based on Satellite Observations and Surface Monitoring in Support of US-Mexico Border 2012 Program Environmental Health Decisions Vance Fong, Debbie Lowe, Jan Baxter, EPA/Region 9 Application of Integrated 03 Observing System to Houston-Galveston-Gulf Shore Region and Eastern Great Lakes Region James Szykman and John Lyon, EPA/Office of Research and Development Receptor Modeling Applications for State Implementation Plans (SIPS) Shelly Eberly, EPA/Office of Research and Development 00 01 04 06 31 to B f3 <48 OP 03 UOOH ADC MO&S CC ooobo^obobio t n 40 m «oooso«obobio b /:¦ 4c m WCE'S ADO W3&G CC WCDH ADO WOOSKTT Local Scale Research This figure shows 2-Day LaRC backtrajectories (small white circles) initialized below 1 km at UMBC with Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensor data (MODIS). Black circles show movement of clusters from July 20 (pane! A) to July 22 (panel C). The high MODIS AOD in the Midwest is associated with rapid long-range transport of emissions from Alaskan wild fires. Elevated MODIS AOD over eastern Virginia is associated with the slow moving regional sulfate event formed over the southeast. Monitoring Mercury Speciation and Reactions in Utility Emissions Plumes Mathew Landis and Jeff Ryan, EPA/Office of Research and Development Application of Advanced Monitoring to Characterize Near Roadway Air Quality and Exposures Rich Baldauf and Eben Thoma, EPA/Office of Research and Development Application of Satellite Data for Three-Dimensional Monitoring of PM25 Formation and Transport in San Joaquin Valley, California Rebecca Rosen, EPA/Region 9 Air Division James Szykman, EPA/Office of Research and Development This figure uses aerosol lidar data to establish 3-D aerosol structure. It shows the topography of southern San Joaquin Valley, CA, overlaid with MODIS AOD and the aerosol scattering vertical profile for lidar flights through SJV on 6/12/03. epascienceforum Your Health • Your Environment • Your Future Although this poster was reviewed by EPA and approved for publication, it may not reflect official Agency policy. ------- |