Exceptional Air Pollution Event Analysis Community Workspace

Exceptional Event (EE):

An air quality exceedance that would not have occured but for the presence of a natural/nonrecurring event.

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This is a community workspace for illustrative analyses of smoke, dust and other unusual events Contributions are welcome of observations, models, tools, methods, analyses and discussions Ideas on wiki contents and layout will be most appreciated!!

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What's New

2009-08-01: NASA ROSES08 EE Partially Funded, $100K/yr
2009-04-07: NASA ROSES08 EE Proposal Declined (:
2008-08-06: NASA ROSES08 EE Proposal Submitted
2008-06-01: Evidence for Flagging Exceptional Events
2008-04-11: Exceptional Event Progress Report
2008-02-22: Schichtel: Fossil/Contemp Carbon pdf
2008-02-11: EPA Presentation on EE , PDF
2007-11-11: EPA EE Categories, Discussions
2007-11-10: Space-Time Trend of PM Compliance
2007-11-09: Required Evidence for Flagging EEs
2007-11-08: Analysed Exceptional Events
2007-10-22: Southern California Wildfires
2007-10-11: EE Wiki Up, Telecon| EEs by Region | EE Analyses

EE Context

Air Pollution Events

Illustrative EE Analyses

0705_GA_Smoke | 0710_SoCal_Smoke | 0402_Texas_Dust

General EE Catalog

EE-Related Resources

Tools and Methods Datasets Reports, Papers Websites

This open community wiki space has been established and is managed by Rudolf Husar, who is working as an EPA contractor. Any information presented on this website or any contribution by EPA personnel to the discussion on this website should not be construed as representing the Agency's position on these issues.