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RERANKING OF AREA SOURCES IN LIGHT OF SEASONAL/REGIONAL EMISSION FACTORS AND STAE/LOCAL NEEDS
Citation:
Kersteter, S. RERANKING OF AREA SOURCES IN LIGHT OF SEASONAL/REGIONAL EMISSION FACTORS AND STAE/LOCAL NEEDS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/7-89/008.
Description:
The report gives results of an effort to provide a better understanding of air pollution area sources and their emissions, to prioritize their importance as emitters of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and to identify sources for which better emission estimation methodologies are needed. Area sources in general and area source solvent categories were prioritized based on annual and seasonal emissions and EPA Regional emission dependencies (i. e., certain categories, such as forest wildfires, were identified as categories in which activity accurs significantly more in one Region than in others and therefore show Regional emission dependencies). Factors affecting the variability of each area source category were also identified. Inventory assumptions and Seasonal/Regional factors were documented and discussed.