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TERC's goal is to advance scientific and technical knowledge that helps state policy-makers make well-informed decisions about how to reduce ground-level ozone, the state's most pressing and far-reaching environmental problem. Although TERC's original mission in 2002 was related to air quality in the Houston-Galveston area, the research focus has been broadened to include the Dallas-Fort Worth area and much of eastern Texas due to emission transport and related impacts. Activities also now extend to air quality issues besides ozone, specifically hazardous air pollutants and fine particulate matter.
Meeting the ozone standards has been an elusive goal in both Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. Without question, it is an extremely complex assignment. Ozone forms in the air from reactions between two different types of pollutants - chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and combustion byproducts known as oxides of nitrogen (NOx). These pollutants are emitted by a broad array of sources including large industrial plants, millions of cars and trucks, on-road and off-road diesel equipment and small businesses of many kinds.
TERC has coordinated its research activities closely with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), which is responsible for choosing the emission-reducing measures that make up the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for meeting the one-hour standard. TERC has sought to complement the TCEQ's role in formulating the SIP by providing the best science available as a raw material for modeling, technical and policy decisions, and by working collaboratively with TCEQ to ensure that TERC's research enhances the agency's own efforts.
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This project will provide continuous observations of mixing layer depth during the Texas Air Quality Study II campaign using a ground-based micropulse lidar (MPL). This critical parameter would be measured along two planes, one between Moody Tower and the Wells Fargo Plaza Tower in down-town Houston thus providing ta separate 2-D "wall" of the daytime and nighttime urban boundary layer height and aerosol optical depths.
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The objective of this program is to characterize aerosol and hydrocarbon concentrations at multiple locations in Houston, Texas, during the September 2006 intensive field operation of TexAQS II.
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The objective of this study funded by the Texas Environmental Research Consortium (TERC) was to collect the technical information required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to estimate the distribution of compressor engines associated with natural gas production, processing and transportation in the eastern portion of Texas.
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