Winter 2005 Midwestern Regional PM EventsCoordinator: Donna Kenski, LADCO

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Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Trackingrhusar@me.wustl.edu

NAAPS SO4 ModelAerosol Bext Data

PM Event

Regional Average AIRNOW PM25

• Data: Surface, Emission – AIRNOW: PM, Ozone

• Tools: Data Access, Browsing, Simulation– Browser– Animator– Plume

• Methods– Filtering– Aggregation– Comparison– Spatial Overlay

Datasets

• Data: Surface, Emission – AIRNOW: PM, Ozone

Midwest HazeCam Image ConsoleImage Archive and Browser

• Hourly Midwest HazeCam Images are archived by DataFed data access system• Archived images for all cameras can be browsed through this console• HazeCam URL for a day: http://www.datafed.net/consoles/MWH_WebCams.asp?image_width=400&image_height=300&datetime=2005-01-31T13:00:00

• URL for a site and day: http://webapps.datafed.net/datasets/webcam/cincinnati/20050131-13mwhcincinnati.jpg

• URLs can be embedded as links into emails, bookmarks, web pages, PPT and PDF files.

Midwest HazeCam Image Browser

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Consoles

Midwest HazeCam ImagesJan 27-Feb 3, 2005

• The images were part of the Midwest HazeCam Console of FASTNET project.

AIRNOWJan.24, 2005 Jan.25, 2005 Jan.26, 2005 Jan.27, 2005

Jan.28, 2005 Jan.29, 2005 Jan.30, 2005 Jan.31, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005 Feb. 2, 2005 Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 4, 2005

Feb. 5, 2005 Feb. 6, 2005

AIRNOWJan.26, 2005 Jan.27, 2005 Jan.28, 2005 Jan.29, 2005

Jan.30, 2005 Jan.31, 2005 Feb. 1, 2005 Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 4, 2005 Feb. 5, 2005 Feb. 6, 2005

NOAA GASP GOES Satellite Aerosol Optical Thickness

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Feb 03 2005

Feb 07 2005

Feb 04 2005 Feb 05 2005

MODIS Satellite AOD – IDEA ProjectJan 28-Feb 9

WRF PM25 Model

050201

050204

050203050202

050209

ASOS_STIJan.24, 2005 Jan. 25, 2005 Jan. 26, 2005

Jan.28, 2005 Jan.29, 2005 Jan.30, 2005

Feb.1, 2005 Feb.2, 2005

Jan.27, 2005

Surf_Met: WindBextJan. 24, 2005 Jan. 25, 2005 Jan. 26, 2005 Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005 Jan. 29, 2005 Jan. 30, 2005 Jan. 31, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005 Feb. 2, 2005 Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 4, 2005

Feb. 5, 2005

Surf_Met:TempJan. 24, 2005 Jan. 25, 2005 Jan. 26, 2005 Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005 Jan. 29, 2005 Jan. 30, 2005 Jan. 31, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005 Feb. 2, 2005 Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 4, 2005

Feb. 5, 2005

Surf_Met: WindBextJan. 24, 2005 Jan. 25, 2005 Jan. 26, 2005 Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005 Jan. 29, 2005 Jan. 30, 2005 Jan. 31, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005 Feb. 2, 2005 Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 4, 2005

Feb. 5, 2005

NRL NAAPS Aerosol Forecast Model

NRL modelSurface BextOverlayProblem: humidity correction

NAAPS SO4 ModelAerosol Bext Data

Nitrate?

050208

050201

050209

050131050130050129050128050127

050126050125

050202

050207

050203 050204 050205 050206

AIRNOW: Multi-Site Overlay

Surf_Met: RHBextJan. 30, 2005 Jan. 31, 2005 Feb. 1, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005 Feb. 3, 2005 Feb. 4, 2005

Feb. 5, 2005 Feb. 7, 2005

Corn Production

Regional Average PM25 Concentration PatternBased on AIRNOW

• Compared to past PM25 events, since 2003 the 0502 event was– Lower peak concentration (40 ug/m3 avg) than the yearly July 4 spikes (>55 ug/m3 avg)– Much longer (10 days) than the July 4 spikes (2-3 hours)– The event time integral was ~2x higher than the largest summer events

Midwest Region

0502 PM Event

PM Event

Regional Average PM25 Concentration PatternBased on AIRNOW

• Time pattern of the 0502 Event– The overall event lasted about 10 days, Jan 28-February 7– The Upper Midwest peaked first (Jan 31-Feb 2); Industrial MW later (Feb 3 – 6) – The Industrial MW region show more diurnal variation (lowest in the mid-afternoon)

0502 PM Event

Plume Simulation

Multi-Plume Simulation

48 hr transport

Lat 38-52

Lon –98 -88

PM25, RHBext, Temperature Pattern

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