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Project ID: 01-1-5-06

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/19/2001

Date Completed: 04/30/2004

Title: Improving Model Estimates of Smoke Contributions to Regional Haze Using Low-Cost Sampler Systems

Project Proposal Abstract: Evaluating potential contributions of smoke dispersion, transport and deposition to regional haze from wildland and prescribed fire is difficult and costly, especially for Class I areas. Recent research indicates that various filter pack, denuder and passive monitoring systems can be adapted for remote site smoke sampling systems. We propose to adapt a combination of these systems to measure pollutants contributing to regional haze, ozone and nitrogen deposition. These systems will be robust, low-cost and useful for sampling in remote areas, making them beneficial for both local plume dispersion measures and regional haze assessments. We also propose to use these sampler systems to assess haze patterns and regional visibility models at two key regions in the Western U.S. - the Sierra Nevada, and the Grand Canyon Plateau. We will establish a network of 60 - 90 monitoring sites for a 5 - 6 month period in ech region for one year. Results from the monitoring networks will be used to describe spatial patterns of urban and smoke contributions to regional haze, and to test regional visibility models (such as CMAQ). Regional scale visibility models (such as REMSAD and CMAQ) are an alternative approach to plume disj56rsion models for measuring smoke transport and deposition. The advantage of regional scale models is that multiple fire sizes and intensities can be simultaneously included with urban air pollution in these models. Presently these models are being adapted by the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) to estimate western and national regional haze patterns to support State and Tribal Air Quality Implementation Plans (SIP and TIP) in the western U.S. Making these models available for Forest Service and Interior smoke and air resource managers represents a unique opportunity to provide program support with the same modeling system used to develop the SIP's and TIP's.

Principal Investigator: Andrzej S. Bytnerowicz

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Michael J. Arbaugh	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Co-Principal Investigator	Mark Fenn	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Co-Principal Investigator	Bob Musselman	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Fort Collins
Co-Principal Investigator	Pamela E. Padgett	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Co-Principal Investigator	Beth Plymale	SN-AMG
Co-Principal Investigator	Trent Procter	Forest Service	Sequoia National Forest
Federal Cooperator	Andrzej S. Bytnerowicz	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

There are no project locations identified for this project.

Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	9979	NonRefereed Publication	Ozone and HNO3 Vapor Distribution in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Eastern Sierra Nevada
	9978	NonRefereed Publication	Monitoring Nitrogen Deposition in Throughfall Using Ion Exchange Resin Columns: A Field Test in the San Bernardino Mountains
	9977	NonRefereed Publication	Progress of Work on Development of a Passive Sampler for Pariculate Matter and Gases
	9976	NonRefereed Publication	New Passive Sampler for Monitoring Ambient Nitric Acid (HNO3) Vapor
	9975	NonRefereed Publication	Ogawa Ozone Passive Sampler Range of Measurements

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