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SELECTED AIR QUALITY TRENDS AND RECENT AIR POLLUTION INVESTIGATIONS IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION
Citation:
Mukerjee, S. SELECTED AIR QUALITY TRENDS AND RECENT AIR POLLUTION INVESTIGATIONS IN THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER REGION. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 276(1-3):1-18, (2001).
Impact/Purpose:
1) Assess new and standard air monitoring devices to characterize PM and gaseous air pollutants that are being used in this task.
2) Develop advanced directional analysis techniques (with receptor modeling) to assess transboundary transport of air pollutants and other source impacts. Hypothesis to be tested: Can these wind sector analysis techniques help us identify source location and contribution of transboundary and other sources.
Objectives will be achieved by development of a detailed electronic database for application in the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) to perform statistical assessments and directional techniques on measurements from Border XXI studies, namely the Lower Rio Grande Valley Transboundary Air Pollution Project (TAPP) done in and near Brownsville, TX and Ambos Nogales Air Programs on Arizona/Sonora border. Research includes analysis of submicron PM and gaseous pollutant data from El Paso as part of "Measurement and Modeling of Air Pollutants in El Paso, Texas" study.
Description:
The thirteen journal articles in this issue deal with air quality indicators due, in part, to population growth, cross-border traffic, and economic expansion since ratification of NAFTA; regions covered span from Tijuana, Baja California to Brownsville, Texas. This introduction details environmental and NAFTA issues for the region during the 1990's and provides a quantitative technique on how air pollution trends can be analyzed with economic information, such as the increase in truck/car-crossing data; it also provides figures for border industries known as maquiladoras during this period. The Introduction also summarizes the special issue papers and how they are inter-related.
The information in this document has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Contract 68-D5-0049 to ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc. It has been subjected to agency review and approved for publication. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement of recommendation for use.