WESTAR, NPS & EPA EOG Visibility Monitoring Data Analysis Workshop - Colorado State University, August 2001

WESTAR’s Western Region Training Center, in cooperation with the National Park Service (NPS), and EPA OAQPS’s Education and Outreach Group (EOG), hosted this workshop for air quality staff. The emphasis of the workshop was on helping state agency monitoring/data analysis staff become familiar with IMPROVE and other visibility monitoring data and techniques for manipulating the data to support regional haze rule SIP development. The training is intended for air staff and was open to state & local air regulatory air staff and EPA & FLM staff.

Workshop Agenda

Workshop presentations and hands on demonstration and training material

Kristi Gebhart, National Park Service-Air Resources Division

Diurnal and Seasonal Patterns in Light Scatttering, Extinction, and Relative Humidity (Power Point - 9 MB)

NPS Source Attribution Modeling (Power Point - 13 MB)

Receptor Models-Information Outline (Word Document - 34 KB)

William Malm, National Park Service-Air Resources Division

Part I-What is Visibility? (Power Point - 5 MB)

Part II-Illumination Independent Aerosol Optical Properties (Power Point - 2.5 MB)

Part III-Illumination Dependent Aerosol Optical Properties (Power Point - 6 MB)

Part IV-Psychophysical Interface (Power Point - 4 MB)

Simulating a Scene (Power Point - 6 MB)

Marc Pitchford, Environmental Protection Agency

Regional Haze Rule Guidance: Tracking Progress and Natural Levels (Power Point - 213 KB)

Worst 20% Hazes Across the Country based on IMPROVE Speciation Data (Power Point - 361 KB)

RPO Monitoring Issues (Power Point - 32 KB)

Bret Schichtel, CIRA/Colorado State University

Aerosol Calculations Tutorial (Excel File - 3 MB)

Trends Tutorial (Excel File - 74 KB)

Long Range Transport Mechanism (Power Point - 376 KB)

Regional Simulation of Atmospheric Pollutants with the Capita Monte Carlo Model (Word Document - 3.5 MB)