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Regional Transport Modeling for East Texas
| Project Period: | 11/18/2005 - 04/30/2006 |
| Total Budget: | $390,000 |
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This project will deploy the CMAQ and CAMx models to investigate the sensitivity of regional source apportionment to assumptions involving meteorological and chemical mechanisms, and to improve the current conceptual model of background ozone in East Texas. It will also test the potential effectiveness of a Texas Intra-State Transport Rule by considering realistic future regional NOx and VOC emissions and control scenarios. Sensitivity and process analysis tools will be employed to investigate the underlying factors behind source apportionment results by various techniques and corresponding control strategy effectiveness.
Phase 1 will consist of a model base case evaluation and future case control strategy assessment. The control strategy analysis requested by the TERC Board involves the consideration of future emissions of permitted and/or planned EGUs in Texas. Evaluation of a possible statewide EGU NOx cap may be an important element of this project. Phase 1 will be scheduled so that its results can be used in the DFW 8-hour SIP.
Phase 2 of the project will draw conclusions from Phase 1 to arrive at an enhanced conceptual model of regional transport and background ozone in East Texas that can be tested in the field during the intensive portion of TexAQS II in the summer of 2006. The project will contribute to a Science Plan for TexAQS II-2006.
Please Note: Results from this project are not yet finalized. In order to ensure the best quality control of the data we are incorporating new information recently provided by TCEQ.
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