NW-AIRQUEST 2017 Annual Meeting

Wednesday, June 14th, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM

1:00Welcome provided by WSU Wine Science Center (Tom Collins)
1:15Meeting Kickoff and Introductions (Jeffrey Stocum, OR DEQ)
1:35State of the Model (AIRPACT-5, ClearSky) (Joe Vaughan, WSU)
2:35Working Groups:
1) Ventilation indices (Robert Elleman, EPA)
2) Emission Inventories (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY)
3) Model Evaluation (no report)
4) Exceptional Events (Sara Strachan, IDEQ)
3:20BREAK
3:35Developments in the use of model datasets for air permitting in the PNW (Jay McAlpine)
4:05Effectiveness of the marine vessel emissions control area (Bob Kotchenruther, EPA)
4:35Business Meeting:
1) WSU Work Plan (Jeffrey Stocum/Brian Lamb)
2) UW Work Plan (Rob Elleman, EPA)
5:05Adjourn for the day

Thursday, June 15th, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

8:15Reconvene
8:30Lewiston-Clarkston Valley HCHO Study (Julie Simpson, Tom Jobson, Rong Li)
9:00Estimating secondary organic aerosols (SOA) for regulatory applications (Rong Li, ID DEQ)
9:30The spatio-temporal response of summertime tropospheric ozone to changes in precursor emissions in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia (Bruce Ainslie, Environment Canada)
10:00BREAK
10:15Modeling Range Fire Plume Rise in AIRPACT (Wei Zhang, ID DEQ)
10:45Fire SOA and CMAQ Sensitivity Runs, Aug 2015 (Yunha Lee, WSU)
11:15Urbanova project (Brian Lamb, WSU)
11:30The related 4/3 km modeling progress (Farren Herron-Thorpe, WA ECY)
12:00LUNCH
1:15AIRPACT – Fire (Joe Vaughan/Vikram Ravi, WSU)
1:45DDM applied to the TCOPS study period (Mahshid Etesamifard)
2:15Temporal Component Evaluation Analysis (Tsengel Nergui, WSU)
2:45BREAK
3:05Modeling Oregon’s gasoline dispensing facility emissions (Chris Swab/Phil Allen, OR DEQ)
3:35TEMPO satellite and potential applications (Sara Strachan, ID DEQ)
4:05Using AIRPACT for SIPs, Volkswagen Mitigation Planning and Quincy Community assessment (Sally Otterson, WA ECY)
4:35Acknowledgement of Brian Lamb’s retirement from teaching, but continuing involvement in research
5:00Adjourn for the day

Friday, June 16th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 AM

8:30Emissions and chemistry of submicron aerosols and precursor gases during wintertime over the northeast U.S. (Viral Shah)
9:00Washington’s TCOPS update (Tom Jobson, WSU)
9:30Updates to background concentrations lookup tool (Ranil Dhammapala, WA ECY)
10:00BREAK
10:20Regional Haze discussion (Farren and Jean-Paul Huys)
10:40How NW-AIRQUEST can work with WRAP of Regional Haze Analysis (Tom Moore, Westar/WRAP)
11:10Work Group Discussions/Planning 2017 work
12:00Wrap-up, to do list review, next steps (Jeffrey Stocum, OR DEQ / Paul Rosso, WA ECY)
12:30Adjourn the Annual Meeting