Data Analysis at LADCO

Workgroup Participants

Training opportunities

AWMA Environmental Data Analysis Meeting, Chicago, October 3-5, 2005:   This conference will bring together environmental data analysts to present their interpretations on trends, data mining techniques, statistical uncertainties, metric development processes, and other relevant topics. By sharing these techniques and the success stories, environmental data analysts will be better able to shape their future work in their specific geographic areas and with their particular data sets.

This conference will also focus on understanding what high quality environmental data, data systems, and data analysis might be needed or desirable to support sound conclusions and management decision-making (whoever the decision-maker is, CEO, plant manager, federal/state/local official, international bodies, etc.).

Abstracts are due March 11!  This is the perfect opportunity for workgroup members to present recent work and learn about new ways of looking at data. 

More details are at: http://www.awma.org/events/confs/data/default.asp

SPlus Training:  Visit the SPlus web site for a training schedule at http://www.insightful.com/services/training.asp.

Conference Call Schedule

Next LADCO/MRPO data analysis call is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2, 9 am CDT, 317-233-3088.

The LADCO Data Analysis Workgroup will meet at LADCO on May 18, 2005 for a 1-day meeting to share recent analysis results.  Travel support from LADCO is available to state analysts if needed.  An agenda and hotel information will be posted soon. 

Academic Community Meeting

LADCO's academic community met on June 11, 2004.  The goal of this meeting was threefold: to bring together the community of local aerosol science researchers and give them an opportunity to share recent results;  to present a summary of LADCO's recent work and priorities in PM2.5, ozone, and haze research; and to discuss LADCO's future directions and explore possible avenues for collaboration with the academic community.  The agenda and presentations are available here.

Trajectory and Source Apportionment Meeting

LADCO held its third meeting on Trajectory Analysis and Source Apportionment on April 7, 2004.  These meetings have been a great way to keep up with interesting developments in the field, share recent RPO related work, and discuss new directions for these valuable analysis tools.  The agenda and presentations are available below:

• Agenda
• Basil Coutant, Battelle, 8-city source apportionment of PM2.5 speciation trends data
• Kristi Gebhart, CIRA,  Hybrid Trajectory/Grid Models Applied to Bravo
• Dave DuBois, DRI, Use of weighted back trajectory residence time for insight into source-receptor relationships
• Mike Rizzo and Peter Scheff, UIC and EPA, Evaluation of PM2.5 in Chicago by CMB and PMF
• Donna Kenski, LADCO, Seasonal differences in source regions for PM species: A GIS analysis
• Shelly Eberly, EPA/ORD, EPA and ORD's Receptor and Hybrid Model Development and Applications
• Chris Holloman, Battelle, Source Apportionment via Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling
• Rudolf Husar, Washington University, Update on CATT and FASTNET (tools for on line trajectory analysis and natural event tracking)

Workplan

The Air Quality Assessment Protocol describes the modeling and data analysis work that is being conducted in 2003 by LADCO, the data analysis workgroup, and the modeling workgroup.  All of these projects are focused on results that will support the development of state implementation plans for ozone, PM2.5, and regional haze over the next 4-5 years. (Click here for a copy of the protocol).

Status of Analysis Projects: A comprehensive list of current data analysis projects, the questions we are trying to answer with data analysis, the analyst assigned to each task, and the project status is given in this spreadsheet: Midwest RPO Data Analysis Work.

Presentations, reports, results of recent analyses

• Preliminary Data Analyses: Semicontinuous Speciated PM2.5 Measurements, Chicago and Indianapolis, report by Bill Adamski, Wisconsin DNR Publication AM-357-2004, October, 2004.
• Ozone Design Value Animations, a powerpoint presentation that shows animated gifs of changes in ozone 1-hour and 8-hour design values in the Midwest by Matt Harrell, IEPA, October, 2004.
• Ammonia and Its Role in Midwestern Haze, paper by Donna Kenski, David Gay, and Sean Fitzsimmons, presented at AWMA Regional Haze Meeting, Asheville, NC, October 2004
• Trends Analysis of Ozone Precursors, report by Bill Adamski, Wisconsin DNR Publication AM-341-2004, April, 2004
• CART Analysis of Historic Ozone Episodes, paper by Donna Kenski to be presented at AWMA Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, June 2004.
• GIS Analysis of Transboundary PM2.5 Transport, paper by Donna Kenski to be presented at AWMA Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, June 2004.
• Intercomparison of Two Continuous Ammonia Monitors, poster by Donna Kenski et al. presented at NADP workshop on ammonia, October 22-24, 2003, Washington, DC.
• Ambient Ammonia, poster and powerpoint presentation by Donna Kenski et al. summarizing available ambient ammonia data from AQS and a few other sources (poster presented at NADP workshop on ammonia, October 22-24, 2003, Washington, DC.
• Indiana PM-Coarse Analysis, presented by Sarah Raymond to data analysis workgroup June 5, 2003.
• Characterizing Ambient Fine Particulate Matter in Wisconsin 1999-2001, report by Bill Adamski, published February 2003, presented at LADCO data analysis meeting March 6, 2003.  Click Here for accompanying powerpoint file.
• June 2002 Aircraft Data Analysis, presented by Matt Harrell at LADCO data analysis meeting March 6, 2003.
• Trends Analysis of SO4 and NO3, presented by Maria Witmer-Rich to data analysis workgroup Feb. 11, 20
• Meteorological Conditions Associated with Regional Haze: CART Analysis, presented by Donna Kenski to data analysis workgroup, March 6, 2003.
• CMB Analysis of Urban PM2.5 Data, presented by Donna Kenski at AWMA Symposium on Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology, San Francisco, CA (Nov. 13-15, 2002) and to data analysis workgroup.
• PM2.5 Mapping Issues, presented by Matthew Harrell to data analysis workgroup, Dec. 10, 2002
• Sampling Frequency Analysis, report by Peter Scheff, Dec. 2002.
• Comparison of Collocated IMPROVE and CASTNET data at Bondville, IL, paper by Mike Koerber, October 2002.
• Indicator Species, paper by Mike Koerber, May 2002.
• Estimating Annual PM from Monthly Averages, paper by Mike Koerber, April 2003.
• GIS Analysis of 2002 Aircraft Data, by Matt Harrell and Pam Brooks, September, 2002.   This links to separate jpegs for each flight/pollutant.  The data are also available on CD as an ArcView project that allows you to display multiple layers at a time; contact Donna Kenski for a copy. 
• Regional Haze and Visibility in the Midwest, LADCO/MRPO report, Sept. 2001. 
• Adjusting TEOM Data for Comparison to Federal Reference Method Measurements in Region 5, paper by Mike Rizzo, Peter Scheff, and Will Kaldy, June 2002.
• Ensemble Trajectory Analysis, paper by Donna Kenski, May 2001.
• Midwestern PM2.5 Episode Analysis, ppowerpoint by Donna Kenski, March 2005

Monitoring Projects

• Nitrogen Speciation at Bondville
• Drum Sampling in Detroit
• Organic Speciation at Seney
• Aircraft Sampling
• St. Louis Supersite
• Ammonia Monitoring (joint project with CENRAP)
• Organic Speciation in Urban Areas,  RFP issued March 2003.

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