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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DATA SYSTEMS: SYSTEMS OVERVIEW MANUAL
Citation:
Larkin, R. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT DATA SYSTEMS: SYSTEMS OVERVIEW MANUAL. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/8-80/005.
Description:
The report is a systems overview manual and technical reference guide for the Environmental Assessment Data Systems (EADS), a group of related computerized data bases which describe multimedia discharges from energy systems and industrial processes. The EADS have been designed to aid researchers in environmental assessment, source characterization, and control technology development. The EADS data bases are categorized as either waste stream data bases or reference data bases, and the report describes in detail the structure and data content of each category. Separate user guides will be issued for each data base component of the EADS. This report addresses the purpose and scope of the EADS and discusses the component data bases from an engineering (rather than computer) viewpoint. The Systems Overview Manual provides the user with a general knowledge of the contents and capabilities of the EADS. Specific instructions on the use of each data base are given in the individual user guides. This report also contains program library abstracts for available user software.