st. louis - midwest supersite fine particulate matter field campaign at reserve, ks
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St. Louis - Midwest Supersite Fine Particulate Matter Field Campaign at Reserve, KS. Neil D. Deardorff Scott A. Duthie Jay R. Turner Environmental Engineering Program Washington University in St. Louis Jeffery D. Reifschneider Environmental Department Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
St. Louis - Midwest Supersite Fine Particulate Matter Field Campaign at Reserve, KS
Neil D. Deardorff
Scott A. Duthie
Jay R. Turner
Environmental Engineering Program
Washington University in St. Louis
Jeffery D. Reifschneider
Environmental Department
Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri
National RPO Work Groups Meeting
St. Louis, MO
November 4-6, 2003
Introduction• As part of the St. Louis – Midwest Supersite program, a movable
measurement platform was instrumented and deployed at two rural locations:– Rural southeastern Missouri, approximately 100 km south of
St. Louis– Rural northeast Kansas, collocated with an IMPROVE
protocol site established in Summer 2002 • Measurement Objectives
– Complement sustained measurements in East St. Louis (IL) by providing urban/rural contrast
– Explore aerosol climatology in the CENRAP domain to support regional haze program development and implementation
• Measurement Periods– August to November, 2001 in Park Hills, MO– August to December, 2002 in Reserve, KS
Reserve, KS
CENRAP domain
Park Hills, MO
Monitoring Locations
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Reserve, Kansas
Measurements Summary - Reserve
• St. Louis - Midwest Supersite movable platform deployed at Reserve, KS, in collaboration with the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri
• Hourly-average (or finer) data for: meteorology; and PM-2.5 mass, nitrate, sulfate, aethalometer black carbon, and nephelometer light scattering
• Daily 24-hour average data for: PM precursor gases; PM-10 mass; and PM-2.5 mass, ions, carbon, and metals
• Two six-week measurement periods
– August 24 to October 5, 2002 (continued to October 23)
– November 18 to December 31, 2002
– selected semicontinuous monitors operated during the six-week interim period
• Emphasis on Reserve, KS measurements…– Anatomy of a regional sulfate event– Potential evidence for long-range transport of smoke– Field application of anhydrous ammonia
• Brief results from the Park Hills, MO measurements…– Comparisons of components coupled and uncoupled
with St. Louis data
Features of this Presentation
Anatomy of a Regional Sulfate Event
• Four tools to demonstrate the event structure…– Semicontinuous sulfate measurements in Reserve and St.
Louis– daily 24-hour integrated sulfate in Reserve and St. Louis– 1/3 day 24-hour integrated sulfate at the IMPROVE network
sites– Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) model predictions
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8/27
8/28 8/29
8/30 8/31
9/1
9/2
9/3
air mass back trajectories from NOAA/ARL HYSPLIT model
Regional IMPROVE Data and Air Mass Back Trajectories
August 24
August 27
August 30
• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) sulfate method
– 54% conversion efficiency during this deployment as determined by comparisons to daily 24-hour integrated filter sulfate by the Harvard-EPA Annular Denuder System (HEADS)
Semicontinuous Sulfate in Reserve
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m g/m
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Reserve, daily average
Reserve, hourly average
St. Louis, hourly average
PM-2.5 Sulfate Event
Top: Predicted sulfate from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) NAAPS model. Bottom: Sulfate measured at an urban site (St. Louis) and rural site (Reserve).
On August 28 the northwestern edge of the high sulfate domain includes St. Louis but not Reserve, while on August 31 the high sulfate domain extends west to Reserve.
8/28/02, 1200 CST 9/1/02, 0000 CST
Supersite versus IMPROVE ComparisonsPM-2.5 Sulfate: August 24 – November 30, 2002
all concentrations in mg/m3
[IMPROVE] = (0.97 +/- 0.04) x [HEADS]
R2 = 0.987N = 19 (August - November 2002)
colocated precision = 0.23 mg/m3
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HEADS PM-2.5 Sulfate
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rove
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Su
lfate
• Excellent agreement between HEADS and IMPROVE sulfate data
• Intercept statistically indistinguishable from zero at 95% CL
• Slope statistically indistinguishable from unity at 95% CL
Supersite versus IMPROVE Comparisons PM-2.5 Nitrate: August 24 – November 30, 2002
• Excellent agreement between HEADS and IMPROVE nitrate data (note scales are factor of two smaller than sulfate scatter plot)
• Intercept statistically indistinguishable from zero at 95% CL
• Slope statistically indistinguishable from unity at 95% CL
all concentrations in mg/m3
[IMPROVE] = (1.00 +/- 0.09) x [HEADS]
R2 = 0.934N = 19 (August - November 2002)
colocated precision = 0.21 mg/m3
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HEADS PM-2.5 Nitrate
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PM-2.5 Sulfate and Associated Ammonium:August 28 – October 9, 2002 (Period #1)
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sulfatemoles ammonium per mole sulfate (nitrate corrected)
PM-2.5 Sulfate and Associated Ammonium:November 18 – December 31, 2002 (Period #2)
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/m3
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sulfatemoles ammonium per mole sulfate (nitrate corrected)
Long-Range Transport of Smoke: Do Fires Show up in the Reserve data?
• Instances of coupled high concentrations of aethalometer black carbon (BC) and sulfate observed
• During such periods, air masses back trajectories originate in the southeastern U.S. pass and pass nominally through Arkansas before arriving in Reserve, KS.
– NRL model qualitatively consistent with these observations when fires are reported in MODIS (database from which model is developed)
• Large number of fires in Arkansas during the early part of September from Arkansas Fire Reports which are not reported in MODIS
– Satellite imagery detects possible smoke haze
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lfate
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/m3
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arb
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n (m g
/m3 )
HSPH Sulfate
Aethalometer Black Carbon
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t. 5
: C
oupl
ed
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t. 1
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Dec
oupl
ed
Carbon-Sulfate Coupling
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t. 1
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oupl
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NRL Model Predictions• On September 5 trajectories
and prediction maps qualitatively show a relation to transport from the Southeast.
Sulfate
Smoke
Air mass back trajectory for noon CST on September 5
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HSPH Sulfate
Aethalometer Black Carbon
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t. 5
: C
oupl
ed
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t. 1
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Dec
oupl
ed
Carbon-Sulfate Coupling
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t. 1
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oupl
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Air Mass Back Trajectories and Carbon-Sulfate Coupling
Sept. 10: CARBON & SULFATE COUPLED
Sept. 11: CARBON & SULFATE
DECOUPLED
September 10: Satellite-Observed Smoke
• Satellite imagery shows possible smoke haze• Large number of fires in Arkansas during this period according to Fire Reports from the
State of Arkansas (need to check other states)
Haze
Reserve, KS
SeaWiFS
Sept 10
Ambient Ammonia
• Anhydrous ammonia application observed in the late fall / early winter, coinciding with large spikes in ammonia at the monitoring site (daily 24-hour integrated samples from the Harvard-EPA Annular Denuder System, HEADS)
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Date
24-h
our
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mm
onia
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cent
ratio
n (p
pb)
Field Operator noted on November 18 that anhydrous ammonia application occurred at a field north of the site.
Study Period One Study Period Two
Urban/Rural Contrast Measurements
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Con
cent
ratio
n (u
g/m
3)
Park Hills
East St. Louis
• Deployment at Park Hills, MO, which is approximately sixty miles south of the City of St. Louis and the East St. Louis, IL, St. Louis – Midwest Supersite core monitoring location
• Gaseous species and particulate matter components exhibit varying degrees of coupling, ranging from highly coupled for sulfate to highly decoupled for elemental carbon and gaseous ammonia
Park Hills & East St. Louis Time Series
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ratio
n (u
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Park Hills
East St. Louis
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ratio
n (u
g/m
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Park Hills
East St. Louis
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Con
cent
ratio
n (p
pb)
Park Hills
East St. Louis
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Co
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Park Hills
East St. Louis
Ammonia Nitric Acid
Elemental Carbon Organic Carbon
Acknowledgements• Washington University in St. Louis
– Stefan Falke• CENRAP Monitoring Work Group
– Ray Bishop and Brandon Krogh, Co-Chairs
• USEPA
– Mike Davis, Project Officer – Mike Jones, Project Officer
• Harvard School of Public Health
– Petros Koutrakis and Mark Davey
• University of Wisconsin- Madison
– Jamie Schauer, Min-Suk Bae and Jeff DeMinter
• Desert Research Institute
–Judy Chow, John Watson, Matt Gonzi
Future Plans• Submit validated data to VIEWS
• Further investigate observed features observed in the data towards developing a conceptual model for aerosol climatology in Northeast Kansas to support regional haze planning
• Execute and report out on the data analysis plan elements
The research described in this presentation has been funded in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency through cooperative agreement R-82805901-0 to Washington University. It has not been subjected to the Agency's required peer and policy review and therefore does not necessarily reflect the views of the Agency and no official endorsement should be inferred.