Understanding Episodes of High Airborne Particulate Matter in Iowa

This was a project done, mostly during calendar year 2008, for the Bistate Regional Commission in Eastern Iowa. Our work in this area has continued in 2009 and 2010, so please contact Charlie for more recent results.

Executive Summary (Feb 21, 2009)

Full Report (Feb 21, 2009) - 4.4 Megabytes

also at BiState website (link to page) and (link to file)

Slides from presentation, LADCO, July 8, 2009

Appendices

A - Episode List (Excel File, 67 kB)

B - Time Series

Box and Whisker Plots, and Annual Site-by-Site FRM Timeseries (pdf)

Meteorology and PM, Blawkhawk Foundry monitor, 2007 (pdf)

Meteorology and PM, Dav 10th and Vine monitor, 2007 (pdf)

Meteorology and PM, Dav 10th and Vine monitor, 2008 (pdf)

Meteorology and PM, Muscatine monitor, 2007 (pdf)

Detailed PM Timeseries, 10th and Vine, 2002 (pdf)

C - Maps and Photographs

Map of IDNR Sampling Locations (IDNR File, pdf)

University of Iowa Photos from Davenport and Muscatine ( MS Word, .doc, 3.1 MB)

D - Site List - Excel File, .xls, < 0.1 MB

E - Meteorology Plots and Charts - pdf

F - Spatially Smoothed Plots - (Data)

2002 PM2.5 Episode Maps (pdf)

2006 PM2.5 Episode Maps (pdf)

2007 PM2.5 Episode Maps (pdf)

Kriged Nitrate Maps (pdf)

G - Directional and Direction vs. PM Plots

All directional plots - all sites - pdf

H - Additional Model Output

FRM and TEOM vs. CMAQ, 2002 Episodes, pdf

All Maps of model output during episodes, pdf, 1 MB

I - Source Locations

Maps of Eastern IA PM2.5, NOx, SO2 sources, from IDNR 9-Factor Analyses. pdf, 0.8 MB

J - Notes on review and update process

K - List of files on nonattainment / attainment status. All documents available elsewhere on web as of Feb, 2009. This is not a comprehensive list.

IDNR Technical Support Document (Oct 2008) - pdf - 19 MB

Culver to EPA Cover Letter Oct 2008

Letter EPA to Culver Dec 22, 2008

IDNR Press Release Dec 22, 2008

EPA Press Release Dec 22, 2008

IDNR 2006-2008 PM2.5 Design Value Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

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