WRAP Technical Support System for Air Quality Planning, Tracking, & Decision Support

Tom Moore | Shawn McClure Western Regional Air Partnership | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere Western Governors’ Association | Colorado State University

December 6, 2007

Acknowledgments

• Based on WRAP work 1997-2007– Experience with §309 Haze SIPs submitted 12/03– Need to distill key information for haze planning across wide variety of

air programs in the West

• Thanks to:– WRAP Forums and Workgroups - Too many individuals to list all

• Attribution of Haze – Steve Arnold (CO) & Bob Kotchenruther (EPA-R10)• Modeling – John Vimont (NPS), Mary Uhl (NM), Kevin Briggs (CO)• Monitoring & Data Analysis – Marc Pitchford (NOAA)• 100s involved – feds, tribes, states, industry, enviros

– TSS Development Team – Shawn McClure (CIRA), Joe Adlhoch (Air Resource Specialists), Gerry Mansell (ENVIRON) & others

– EPA funding– In-kind staff work from many agencies & organizations - 1,000s of hours

• Purpose of talk is to report out progress to date and plans for the future

focus on the WRAP's TSS which permits Integration of air quality, meteorology and emissions data sets

for current and future air quality planning.

• What?

• Why?

• How?– Review input data– Review outputs/tools– Haze + other AQ extensions

• Where?

• Future plans

What is the TSS?

• http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/TSS/ • The TSS provides analytical results and tools for

regional haze implementation plans (to improve visibility in Class I areas). The TSS is also the one-stop-shop for access, visualization, analysis, and retrieval of the technical data and regional analytical results -- consolidating information about air quality monitoring, meteorological and receptor modeling data analyses, emissions inventories and models, and gridded air quality/visibility regional modeling simulations.

Why does the TSS exist and what makes it different from other “systems” (do diagram like FETS?)

COLLECT AND STORE

Output Results

Level 1 QC

Level 2 QC

Level 3 QC

Improve quality of

emissions estim

ates

Planned emissions/regional coordination: very frequent use

QC’d data and periodic reporting

Refined emissions for input to modeling

CRITICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE FETS

COLLECT AND STORE

Output Results

Level 1 QC

Level 2 QC

Level 3 QC

Improve quality of

emissions estim

ates

COLLECT AND STORE

Output Results

Level 1 QC

Level 2 QC

Level 3 QC

Improve quality of

emissions estim

ates

Planned emissions/regional coordination: very frequent use

QC’d data and periodic reporting

Refined emissions for input to modeling

Planned emissions/regional coordination: very frequent use

QC’d data and periodic reporting

Refined emissions for input to modeling

CRITICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE FETS

TSS Development (How? & Who?)

Colorado State University – Cooperative Institute for Research in

the Atmosphere (CIRA)

• Contractor for operations/development

• Tool design/implementation

• Project host

• Integrated with:

• Fire Emissions Tracking System (FETS) – Air Sciences, Inc. as subcontractor

• Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) – collocated with IMPROVE program at NPS-CIRA

Air Resource Specialists

(ENVIRON Corp. as subcontractor)

• Design, training, & content development & analysis

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Coordination by WRAP Forums/Workgroups and staff

How does the TSS work?

Do TSS Script for Demo - 11. Navigate to home page

http://www.wrapfets.org/index.cfm

2. Click Login link1. User MEMavko2. Pword hockey5

3. Click on Home TabDescribe organization and

contents (click on State and Tribal Smoke Manager Contacts link

4. Click on map tab• Demo zoom and pan

features• Toggle Display and Center

features• End up at All Events and

Lower 48

5. Hover over Data Status button

6. Enter 9/6/2007 in start and end date fields, click Submit button

7. Click on icons for each fire type to show fire statistic

TSS Script for Demo – 2

8. Describe data acquisition methods

• Automatically retrieved by FETS (e.g., NIFC wildfire; MT/ID Airshed)

• Automatically FTP’d by data providers (available option for data providers…CO pursuing)

• Manual data entry (e.g., AZ)

9. Click View My Projects tab and show list of Projects

10. Click View/Edit Ogden Test Site

• Show data entry screen• Hover over Tool Tip or

two• Click submit to show

insta-QC screen & map

TSS Script for Demo - 3

11. Click View My Burn Days tab

12. Click View/Update for ID 39540 (1/1/07 Burn day 3rd on list)

• Show data entry screen• Hover over a Tool Tip or

two• Scroll down to emissions

table (reminder: this table is for USER PROVIDED emission estimates only).

• Hit submit for insta QC

13. Click reports tab (work on this with Matt)

• Align date with date used on map demo

• Prefer date with 3 fire types

• Ensure that reported data is “complete”/makes sense

Where does TSS fit in?

• Now• Future

Future plans for TSS

WRAP 2008 Workshops• Members of WRAP Committees, Forums, and Workgroups, as well as members of

additional organizations not currently active in the regional haze effort to:– Identify strengths and weaknesses of existing data and analysis tools;– Determine uses and limitations of those data and tools;– Develop coordination efforts needed with ongoing and planned State/Tribal/Federal

projects;– Discuss timing, effort, activities, and any needed changes in future projects by WRAP

contractors– Document results for work planning purposes & next steps

• Monitoring Data Analysis Workshop– 2-day workshop, targeted for April will address monitoring methods, network operations,

and data analysis activities for Ozone, PM, haze, mercury, and deposition data

• Emissions & Modeling Analysis Workshop– 2-day workshop, targeted for July will address emissions and modeling studies related to

Ozone, PM, haze, mercury, and deposition

• Technical Data Needs for Air Quality Planning Workshop– 2-day workshop, targeted for September will bring forward technical data and analysis

capabilities from the earlier workshops to address 2009-12 air quality control and management planning needs for:

• Haze plan implementation – how/what to do• Defining data, studies, & results needed for air quality planning - ozone, PM, mercury, deposition

WRAP 2009-12 Activities

• Track, report, and conduct needed analyses of progress for regional haze;

• Determine regional contributions to Ozone and PM health and welfare standards’ nonattainment issues at various scales;

• Understanding and analyzing the nature and causes of mercury, acid deposition, and critical loads in the West;

• Assess air quality changes from emissions management strategies and programs; and

• In concert with emerging efforts to manage and adapt to climate change, fully integrate data for both energy supply and use as well as greenhouse gas emissions into air quality analyses.