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Project ID: 01-1-5-01

Year: 2002

Date Started: 03/01/2002

Date Completed: 08/10/2006

Title: Fire Effects on Regional Air Quality Including Visibility

Project Proposal Abstract: While considerable research has been done on coarse particulate emissions (PM0), there is less information on fine particulates and aerosols that contribute to regional haze. To meet new air quality monitoring requirements, there will be a need for improved information on fire emissions and their fate in the atmosphere and for consistent approaches to adequately identify and document the contribution of wildiand fire to regional haze. This proposal works to quantify the impacts of smoke on regional air quality, especially regional haze, using tools that will be used by the regulatory community for its development of emissions restrictions on fire and other sources. We will develop a fire smoke emissions inventory for selected periods and regions in support of regional air quality modeling and update the existing NET emissions inventory to include smoke from fire. We also propose to process the updated fire emissions inventory through SMOKE to generate the necessary input data for regional air quality models, and the third task proposes to add fire emissions to an ongoing regional air quality modeling activity. Finally, we will evaluate results of these simulations against regional measurements of visibility and aerosol species concentrations at IMPROVE monitoring locations throughout the western United States. Models or systems developed will be broadly applicable and acceptable to Federal, State, Tribal, and local wildland and air quality managers. They will also be compatible with the computing capabilities of users (e.g., Federal, State, Tribal, and local managers) through the WRAP website and with implementation in a query-able national data base structure.

Principal Investigator: William C. Malm

Agency/Organization: Colorado State University

Branch or Dept: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Jason K. S. Ching	EPA-Environmental Protection Agency	Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division
Co-Principal Investigator	Douglas G. Fox	Private Consulting	Private Consulting
Co-Principal Investigator	Michael Hanna	Colorado State University	Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Federal Cooperator	William C. Malm	Colorado State University	Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

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