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SPECIATE: Guidelines for Data Developers
Citation:
Hsu, Y., F. Divita, J. Dom, M. Strum, AND M. Menetrez. SPECIATE: Guidelines for Data Developers. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-19/085, 2019.
Impact/Purpose:
The purpose of this document is to inform the research community about the content and quality considerations of data so that the EPA can consider community-developed data for inclusion in SPECIATE. Researchers can provide these data voluntarily to EPA for consideration to be added to SPECIATE.
Description:
SPECIATE is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) repository of speciation profiles of many types of air pollution sources. The profiles provide the species makeup or composition of organic gas (such as volatile organic compounds, or VOC), particulate matter (PM) and other pollutants emitted from these sources. Speciation profiles are used by EPA, other governmental and non-governmental agencies including international agencies, the regulated community and academia. Speciation profiles are used in creating speciated emissions inventories, including those needed for photochemical air quality modeling done in support of air quality management activities such as management of surface-level ozone, regional haze and PM. Detailed documentation of SPECIATE is provided at on EPA’s SPECIATE web page.