The national ambient air monitoring strategy: rethinking the role of national networks
| Autor: | Michael Gilroy, Michael Koerber, Rudolf B. Husar, Joann Rice, Ricard Valentinetti, Nealson Watkins, James Hemby, Joe Tikvart, Tim Hanley, Michael Papp, Paul A. Solomon, Mark Schmidt, Richard Scheffe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Air Pollutants Ozone Reactive nitrogen Communication Environmental engineering Air pollution Planning Techniques Management Monitoring Policy and Law Particulates medicine.disease_cause United States Aerosol Trace gas chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Air Pollution medicine Environmental science United States Environmental Protection Agency Waste Management and Disposal Air quality index Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the AirWaste Management Association (1995). 59(5) |
| ISSN: | 1096-2247 |
| Popis: | A current re-engineering of the United States routine ambient monitoring networks intended to improve the balance in addressing both regulatory and scientific objectives is addressed in this paper. Key attributes of these network modifications include the addition of collocated instruments to produce multiple pollutant characterizations across a range of representative urban and rural locations in a new network referred to as the National Core Monitoring Network (NCore). The NCore parameters include carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), reactive nitrogen (NOy), ozone (O3), and ammonia (NH3) gases and the major fine particulate matter (PM2.5) aerosol components (ions, elemental and organic carbon fractions, and trace metals). The addition of trace gas instruments, deployed at existing chemical speciation sites and designed to capture concentrations well below levels of national air quality standards, is intended to support both long-term epidemiological studies and regional-scale air quality model evaluation. In addition to designing the multiple pollutant NCore network, steps were taken to assess the current networks on the basis of spatial coverage and redundancy criteria, and mechanisms were developed to facilitate incorporation of continuously operating particulate matter instruments. |
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