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AN OVERVIEW OF THE OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN OF THE '99 ATLANTA SUPERSITE EXPERIMENT
Citation:
Chameides, W. L., P A. Solomon, C. S. Kiang, D. Mikel, E. Cowling, E. Ericedge, J. Jansen, P. McMurry, J. Meagher, S. Hering, AND T. Bahadori. AN OVERVIEW OF THE OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN OF THE '99 ATLANTA SUPERSITE EXPERIMENT. Presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 15-19, 2000.
Impact/Purpose:
The PM Supersites Program is an ambient monitoring program intended to address the scientific uncertainties associated with fine particulate matter. The main objectives of the Supersites Program are as follows: 1) characterize particulate matter in a way that contributes to the understanding of source-receptor relationships and supports development of State Implementation Plans (SIPs), 2) develop and test advanced measurement methods for potential use in national monitoring networks, and 3) support health and exposure studies by providing detailed chemical and physical data at one or more central monitoring sites.
The specific objectives of this task are to provide scientific review and coordination of the technical aspects of the Supersites Program. This includes coordination among all Supersites projects and other projects which support Supersites objectives, overseeing of the data management, and coordinating the communication of data analysis and modeling results to the scientific community and other stakeholders. Products include a number of peer-reviewed journal articles (approaching 200 or more), final reports from each project, a relational database than includes not only Supersites data, but most aerometric data collected in the continental US and SE Canada during the period July 2001 to August 2002, and a policy relevant findings synthesis entitled Key and Policy Relevant Findings from the Supersites Program and Related Studies. Also supporting the synthesis is a major international conference where results will be presented from air quality methods, measurements, modeling, and data analysis studies with similar objectives to the Supersites program and during the time period of the Supersites Program, i.e., the last 5-7 years.
Description:
During the Summer of 1999, a 4-week intensive field campaign was conducted at a site on Jefferson Street in Midtown Atlanta. The campaign, the 1999 Atlanta Supersites Experiment, was carried out under the direction of the Southern Oxidants Study and represented the first of U.S. EPA's Supersite activities (Albritton, D.L. and D.S. Greenbaum, "Atmospheric Observations: Helping Build the Scientific Basis for Decisions Related to Airborne Particulate Matter," U.S. EPA, October, 1998). The Atlanta Supersites Experiment involved an international team of over 100 scientists and engineers. It brought together a wide array of commercially available and state-of-the science atmospheric-chemical and meteorological measurement equipment to comprehensively address issues related to the measurement and characterization of fine particles in polluted or urban atmospheres.
This work has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Portions of the work were performed under Contract Nos. 68-D5-0040 and 68-D-00-206 by Research Triangle Institute and Cooperative Agreement CR 824843. It has been subjected to Agency review and approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.