Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM)

This aerosol monitoring network was an extension of the IMPROVE network supported by NESCAUM and the National Park Service. The network consisted of 9 IMPROVE type samplers located in rural areas of the northeastern US, and collected three 24 hour samples per week. The PM samples were analyzed for PM2.5 mass and its elemental constituents, organics, ions, and light absorption.

Dataset

NESCAUM Particulate Data set 1988 - 1993 (7 megs)

References

Poirot R.L., Flocchini R.G., and Husar R.B. (1990) Winter fine particle composition in the Northeast: Preliminary results from the NESCAUM monitoring network. Proceedings 83rd Annual A&WMA Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

Poirot, R.L.; Galvin, P.J.; Gordon, N.; Quan, S.; Arsdale, A.V.; Flocchini, R.G. (1991) Annual and seasonal fine particle composition in the Northeast: Second year results from the NESCAUM monitoring network, 91-49.1, Proceedings 84th Annual A&WMA Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Malm, W. C., Y. Golestani, T.A. Cahill, R.A. Eldred, R.L. Poirot and K. Gebhart (1991) Estimation of Aerosol Acidity in the Eastern United States, #91-89.3, Proceedings 84th Annual A&WMA Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Schichtel B.A., Husar R.B., Wilson W.E., Poirot R., Malm W.C. (1992) Reconciliation of visibility and aerosol composition data over the U.S., Proceedings 85th Annual A&WMA Meeting, Kansas City, MO.

Poirot, R. L., Wishinski, P. R. Flocchini, R.G., Artz, R. A., Keeler, J, Schichtel B.A. and Husar R.B. (1992) Transboundary implications of visibility-impairing aerosols in the Northeastern United States (Part I): Space/time patterns from NESCAUM aerosol network. Spring, 1992 Meetings of American Geophysical Union and Canadian Geographical Union, Montreal, Canada.

Wishinski, P.R., Poirot, R.L., Flocchini, R.G., Artz, R. A., Keeler, J, Schichtel B.A. and Husar R.B. (1992) Transboundary implications of visibility-impairing aerosols in the Northeastern United States (Part II): air trajectory assessment of the NESCAUM aerosol data, Spring, 1992 Meetings of American and Canadian Geophysical Unions, Montreal, Canada.

Porter, P.S., S.T. Rao and R.L. Poirot (1996) Statistical analysis of environmental data affected by limits of detection: a question of measurement error, Environmetrics: Fourth International Conference on Statistical Methods for the Environmental Sciences, Espoo, Finland.

Porter, P.S., S.T. Rao, J.Y. Ku, R.L. Poirot and M. Dakins (1997) Small sample properties of nonparametric bootstrap t confidence intervals, JAWMA 47:1197-1203.

Schichtel, B. A. and R. B. Husar ((1997) Derivation of SO2 - SO42- Transformation and Deposition Rate Coefficients Over The Eastern US using a Semi-Empirical Approach, Paper 120-S9.123, A&WMA/AGU Specialty Conference on Visual Air Quality, Aerosol and Global Radiation Balance, Bartlett, NH.

Schichtel, B. A. (1997) Retrieval of North American Sulfur, Nitrogen, and Ammonia Emission Fields from Air Quality Data, Paper 120-S9.123, A&WMA/AGU Specialty Conference on Visual Air Quality, Aerosol and Global Radiation Balance, Bartlett, NH.

Schichtel, B. A. S. R. Falke and R. B. Husar (1999) North American Integrated Fine Particle Data Set, Paper 99-398, 92nd Annual A&WMA Meetings, St. Louis, MO.

Scherbatskoy, T., R. L. Poirot, and R. S. Artz, (1999) Current Knowledge of Air Pollution and Air Resource Issues in the Lake Champlain Basin, AGU Water Monograph on Lake Champlain Research and Implementation, T. Manley and P. Manley, Ed., American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.

Poirot, R., P. Wishinski, B. Schichtel and P. Girton (1999) Air Trajectory Pollution Climatology for the Lake Champlain Basin, AGU Water Monograph on Lake Champlain Research and Implementation, T Manley and P. Manley, Ed., American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC.

Poirot, R., P. Wishinski, P. Hopke and A. Polissar (2000) Sources of Fine Particle Concentration and Composition in Northern Vermont, AWMA-EPA Symposium on Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Poirot, R.L. and P.K. Hopke (2000) The Potential Influence of Data Artifacts on Receptor Model Results, AWMA-EPA Symposium on Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, Research Triangle Park, NC.

Polissar, A.V., P.K. Hopke, and R.L. Poirot, Environ. Sci. Technol. Atmospheric aerosol over Vermont: chemical composition and sources, 35: 4604-4621 (2001).

Poirot, R.L., P.R. Wishinski, P.K. Hopke and A.V. Polissar, Comparative application of multiple receptor methods to identify aerosol sources in northern Vermont, Environ. Sci. Technol. 35: 4622-4636 (2001).

Hopke, P.K., Zhou and R.L. Poirot (2005) Reconciling Trajectory Ensemble Receptor Model Results with Emissions, Environ. Sci. Technol. 39:7980-7983.