Combined Aerosol Trajectory Tool CATT

Indicates the origin of air masses for specific aerosol conditionMANE-VU & MRPO

Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Tracking

FASTNETDemonstration of tools and procedures for natural event characterization

NESCAUM

Tools in support of Inter-RPO Data Analysis Workgroup

CAPITA, April 2003

Combined Aerosol Trajectory Tool (CATT)Example: Airmass origin for high (2.5*average) nitrate

Boundary Waters

Lye Brook Smoky Mtn.

Doly Sods

Triangulation indicates nitrate source in the corn belt

Hi ProbabilityLo Probability

Next Process

Next Process

Why? How?

When? Where?CATT: A Community Tool!

Part of an Analysis Value Chain

Aerosol Data

Collection IMP. EPA

Aerosol Sensors

Integration VIEWS

Integrated AerData

AEROSOL

Weather Data

Assimilate NWS

Gridded Meteor.

Trajectory ARL

Traject.Data

TRANSPORT

TrajData Cube

Aggreg. Traject.

AerData Cube

CATT

Aggreg.Aerosol

CATT-In CAPITA

CATT-In CAPITA

There!

Not There! Further Analysis

GIS

Grid Processing

Emission

Comparison

Kitty: Transport Pattern Browser for VIEWSDriven by ATAD Winds – Needs better 3D Winds (ETA?)

Set Conditions

Plume Simulator (Forward, Backward)Driven by Surface Winds – Needs 3D Winds (ETA?)

Set Conditions

Summary

Status• FASTNET Data Resources and Tools are Ready for the FASTNETters • First FASTNET Analyses Completed for NE Nitrate and TexMex Dust Events

• CATT Transport Analysis Tool is Connected to VIEWS Database• Kitty: Simple Transport Browser for VIEWS is Implemented• Plume Simulator/Browser Implemented

To Do• More Current Events, Three Past Event Analysis• Let Kitty go Wild• Cordial Invitation for Joining in on FUN!!!