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CHARACTERIZING AIR QUALITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRACKING
Citation:
WATKINS, T. H., D. M. HOLLAND, F. DIMMICK, L. TOOLY, E. BALDRIDGE, T. FITZ-SIMONS, D. MINTZ, AND B. COX. CHARACTERIZING AIR QUALITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH TRACKING. Presented at PHASE Team Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 09 - 11, 2005.
Impact/Purpose:
The objectives of this task include: (1) to continuously evaluate and analyze the forecast results to provide diagnostic information on model performance and inadequacies to guide further evolution and refinements to the CMAQ model, and (2) extending the utility of the daily air quality forecast model data being produced by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) as part of a NOAA/EPA collaboration in air quality forecasting, to EPA mission-oriented activities. These objectives include developing and maintaining a long-term database of air quality modeling results (ozone and PM2.5), performing periodic analysis and assessments using the data, and making the air quality database available and accessible to States, Regions, RPO's and others to use as input data for regional/local scale air quality modeling for policy/regulatory purposes.
Description:
This presentation provides a brief summary of EPA's perspective on Environmental Public Health Tracking, the Public Health Air Surveillance Evaluation (PHASE), and EPA's efforts to provide air quality data to three states (Maine, New York, and Wisconsin) that are partners with CDC National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. The presentation includes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the various air quality data sets the EPA provided to the CDC state partners for them to use in their analyses of potential air quality-public health relationships under the PHASE project.