Projects: External Links and Offsite Resources
The TSS builds upon the efforts of several related air quality projects to offer an integrated suite of analysis tools for monitoring, emissions, and modeled air quality data. The TSS development partners are seeking to leverage the resources and experience of these projects to establish an enterprise-level analysis system for guiding states, tribes, and federal land managers in the design of their respective implementation plans for supporting the Regional Haze Rule regulations.
Websites
 |
Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) is an online exchange of air quality data, research, and ideas designed to understand the effects of air pollution on visibility and to support the Regional Haze Rule enacted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce regional haze and improve visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
|
 |
The Causes of Haze Assessment web is an online report that answers questions about the chemical components that cause regional haze, relationships of haze to meteorology, the emissions that cause haze, and the effects of previous and future emissions reductions on the poorest and best visibility levels.
|
 |
An emission inventory data warehouse and web-based application that provides a consistent approach to regional emissions tracking to meet the requirements for State Implementation Plan (SIP) and Tribal Implementation Plan (TIP) development and periodic review and updates.
|
 |
The WRAP RMC provides assistance to State and Tribal agencies in conducting regional haze analyses over the western United States. This analysis is being performed by operating regional scale, three-dimensional air quality models that simulate the emission, transformation, and transport of pollutants and particulate matter and the effects on visibility in WRAP Class I Areas.
|