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PAMS Data Analysis Workshops
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
to Support Ozone Control Programs
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This workbook should be viewed as a work-in-progress. As more data are available, analyses performed, reports reviewed, etc., the workbook presentations will be expanded and enhanced. EPA welcomes reviewers' comments and suggestions and any example analyses, new databases, or additional references which could enhance the discussions. The reviewer should keep in mind that this workbook should be viewed as a framework from which to begin to perform analyses of PAMS data and as a launching point for new ideas concerning PAMS data, and not to show the only way in which to perform analyses. An extensive literature search was not performed during preparation of this document, so EPA would particularly welcome additional references. The authors, Hilary Main, Paul Roberts, and Lyle Chinkin of Sonoma Technology, Inc., thank those who have contributed their comments and ideas to earlier versions of this workbook.
This workbook has been presented at the following workshops:
- EPA OAQPS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, in December 1995
- EPA Region III Headquarters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in July 1996
- EPA Region I Headquarters, Boston, Massachusetts, in October 1996
- EPA Region VI Headquarters, Dallas, Texas in December 1996
- EPA Region V Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois in March 1997
- Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission, Austin, Texas in April 1997
- California Air Resources Board and EPA Region IX, Sacramento, California in May 1997
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The authors owe our gratitude to many people throughout 1995-1997 for their assistance in planning the workshops, preparing the workbooks, providing analysis examples, discussing workbook/workshop content, and providing feedback on the workshops. Most importantly, we would like to thank Bill Hunt of EPA OAQPS for funding the series of workshops and his staff, James Hemby and Mark Schmidt, for managing the workbook preparations and coordinating the workshops. We thank Sonoma Technology, Inc. staff: Dana Coe, Tim Dye, Rick Reiss, Marcelo Korc, and Charles Lindsey for their technical contributions to the workbook. We also appreciate the many participants that supported us through the 2 1/2 day workshops.
The following is a list of people who provided information to update the workbook for presentations in their regions (any missing people from the following list is unintentional):
- The observational-based model presentation is based on work by Richard Scheffe (EPA), Charles Blanchard (Envair), and Bill Cox (EPA); we thank Rich Scheffe and Charlie Blanchard for allowing us to use their presentation and for providing the figures. We also thank Rich Scheffe for providing MAPPER results for various regions of the country and presenting his material at some of the workshops; and Charles Blanchard for MAPPER results using regional data.
- Dr. Eric Fujita of Desert Research Institute (DRI) for preparation of much of the receptor modeling presentation and the CMB analysis of the Texas auto-GC data; the TNRCC for permitting us to show this analysis; Dr. John Watson and Norm Robinson of DRI for providing the current version of CMB8.0;
- The American Petroleum Institute for use of data in the trend analysis. This section is based largely on Chinkin et al., 1996a, Stoeckenius et al., 1994, and U.S. EPA, 1994a.
- Al Leston and Pete Brunelli of the CT DEP for their 1995 PAMS hydrocarbon data as well as helpful discussions; and the CT DEP, ME DEP, NY DEC, and MA DEP for their 1994 PAMS hydrocarbon data.
- Mike Poore (CARB), Jim Balders (Ventura APCD), Steve Barbosa (SCAQMD), David Fairley (BAAQMD), Steve Gouze (CARB), and Don Hammond (CARB) for helpful discussions, data, and data analysis examples for the California workshop.
- Donna Kenski (EPA Region V) for CMB analyses using LMOS and SEMOS data.
- Bill Adamski (WDNR), Rob Dombro (IL EPA), Mike Koerber (LADCO), and Mark Allen (WDNR) for helpful discussions, data, and data analysis examples for the Chicago workshop.
- Julia Lester and Henry Hogo - South Coast Air Quality Management District for UAM data from the Los Angeles Basin; and Bill Adamski, WI Department of Natural Resources, for UAM comparisons using NARSTO-Northeast data.
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