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AQAST Semiannual Meetings

AQAST meetings are held on a semiannual schedule and bring together team members, air quality managers, and research and applications partners. Our last meeting was held on January 15-17, 2014 at Rice University in Houston. You can access the agenda and presentations from that meeting here.

7th AQAST Meeting (AQAST7): June 17-19, 2014 at Harvard University

The next AQAST meeting (AQAST7) will be held June 17-19, 2014 (Wednesday-Friday) at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. The meeting is free and open to all. Air quality managers are especially encouraged to participate. Go to the meeting website for more information and to register. Indicate when you register if you would like to give a presentation. We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge in June!

AQAST AQtivities

AQAST Special Issue of Environmental Manager

Environmental Manager, the monthly magazine of the Air & Waste Management Association, devoted its February 2014 issue to a presentation of AQAST activities in service of air quality management. The issue features an AQAST overview and six feature articles written by AQAST members. Access the full issue here.

Q&A Session with Johnson County (Iowa) AQ managers

AQAST member Scott Spak led a Q&A session on Johnson County air quality, recent trends, and regulatory updates with the Joint Meeting of the Johnson County Boards of Directors and Public Health, Iowa City, October 23, 2013.

AQAST Oil & Gas Tiger Team

Early results from the new AQAST Tiger Team project on emissions from US oil & gas recovery activities (PI Anne Thompson) will be presented at the 2014 Midwest and Central States Air Quality Workshop in St. Louis on April 22-24,sponsored jointly by LADCO and CenSARA.

New AQAST publications (with links)

AQAST special issue of Environmental Manager

AQ User's Guide to Satellite Data

Duncan, B.N., et al., Satellite Data for U.S. Air Quality Applications: Examples of Applications, Summary of Data End-User Resources, Answers to FAQs, and Common Mistakes to Avoid,, submitted to Atmospheric Environment, February 2014. Article

Effect of climate change on wildfires

Yue, X., L.J. Mickley, and J.A. Logan, Projection of wildfire activity in southern California in the mid-21st century, in press, Clim. Dyn., 2014. Article

Interstate Pollution Transport in the Northeast

He, H., et al., An elevated reservoir of air pollutants over the Mid-Atlantic States during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ campaign: Airborne measurements and numerical simulations, Atmos. Environ., 85, 18-30, 2014. Article

NAQFC Evaluation

Chai, T., Kim, H.-C., Lee, P., Tong, D., Pan, L., Tang, Y., Huang, J., McQueen, J., Tsidulko, M., and Stajner, I.: Evaluation of the United States National Air Quality Forecast Capability experimental real-time predictions in 2010 using Air Quality System ozone and NO2 measurements, Geosci. Model Dev., 6, 1831-1850, doi:10.5194/gmd-6-1831-2013, 2013. Article

Ozone inflow to California

Pfister, G., S. Walters, L.K. Emmons, and D.P. Edwards (2013), Quantifying the contribution of inflow on surface ozone over California, J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/2013JD020336, 2013 Abstract

Secondary standard for ozone

Lapina, K., D. K. Henze, J. B. Milford, M. Huang, M. Lin, A. M. Fiore, G. Carmichael, G. G. Pfister, and K. Bowman, Assessment of source contributions to seasonal vegetative exposure to ozone in the U.S., J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD020905, 2014. Article

GLIMPSE decision tool for climate and air quality

Akhtar, F. H., R. W. Pinder, D. H. Loughlin, and D. K. Henze, GLIMPSE: a rapid decision framework for energy and environmental policy, Environ. Sci. Technol., 47, 12011--12019, doi:10.1021/es402283j, 2013. Article

US ammonia emissions

Paulot F., Jacob, D.J., Pinder R.W., Bash J.O., Travis, K., Henze D.K., Ammonia emissions in the United States, Europe, and China derived by high-resolution inversion of ammonium wet deposition data: Interpretation with a new agricultural emissions inventory (MASAGE_NH3), submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2014. Article

Older publications

See the AQAST publications webpage for the full list of AQAST publications.

New AQAST presentations (with links)

Presentations from the 6th AQAST Meeting, Houston, January 2014

Beyond the Stability Index—Fire management & forecasting tools for air quality, weather & climate impacts of prescribed fires

Webinar presented by Scott Spak at the Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Regional Fire Science Consortium Webinar, 15 October 2013[1]