The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently expects to continue recommending use of the Empirical Kinetic Modeling Approach (EKMA) for the preparation of State Implementation Plans aimed at achieving the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone. In view of this fact, efforts to evaluate and document the performance of EKMA as an ozone-predictive model must be continued. The best guide these future efforts, the workshop documented in these proceedings was organized. These proceedings contain the ten presentations made at the workshop by some of the world's foremost experts in the fields of air quality measurement and monitoring. Also included are discussions of the presentations, informal presentations made at the workshop, a concluding discussion of the issues, and the recommendations made by a wrap-up committee formed to review and analyze the workshop proceedings. Among the issues discussed were the differences between four kinetic mechanisms now in existence and between six EKMA field-evaluation methods now available.

Includes bibliographical references. "August 1983." "EPA 600-9-83-014." PB84-118926 Proceedings of the Empirical Kinetic Modeling Approach Validation Workshop, held in Research Triangle Park, NC, December 15-16, 1981.