RPO National Technical Meeting

June 9-10, 2005, Denver, CO

 

Agenda (April 25, 2005 Working Draft - For review and discussion purposes)

A PDF version of the agenda is available here. The links go to PDF versions of the presentations.
National RPO Technical Meeting

8:00 AM
(Governor's Square 12)

National RPO Technical Meeting - Welcome/Introductions/Agenda Review (5 min.)
Results of Regional Haze Data Analysis Workshop – Marc Pitchford (10 min.)
EPA Research Supporting the Regional Haze Rule – Fred Dimmick (10 min.)

8:30 AM
Plenary (Governor's Square 12) – overview of each RPO's technical work to date (preliminary model results/projected emissions) - (15 minutes/RPO)
VISTAS – Pat Brewer
WRAP – Tom Moore
CENRAP – Annette Sharp
MRPO – Michael Koerber
MANE -VU – Gary Kleiman
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM

Emissions Inventory/Modeling (Governor's Square 12) - Joint session - Lessons learned from EI Improvements and Applying Models for Projected Controls

(15 minutes/RPO)

  1. VISTAS - Mike Abraczinskas (15 min)
    • Nitrate performance/ NH3 temporal profiles
    • CEM temporal profiles
  2. VISTAS - Jim Boylan (15 min)
    • 2018 sensitivity runs based on NH3 changes
    • 2018 sensitivity to changes in SO2, NOx, Primary OC
  3. WRAP - Tom Moore (20 min)
    • Sensitivity resulting analysis on dust and fire emissions
  4. MRPO - Speciation/temporalization - Kirk Baker & Mark Janssen (20 min)
  5. SOA module - Ralph Morris (20 min)

Monitoring & Data Analysis (Governor's Square 11) – separate group meeting

12:00 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:30 PM

Plenary (Governor's Square 12) – Potential Uses of Satellite Data and Applications - applications of current or potential data products to RPO haze-related Emissions Inventory and Data Analysis activities - Rich Poirot (20 minutes each)

  1. NASA Stennis Space Center - Jane Andrews
  2. NASA Langley, National Research Council - Amber Soja
  3. CAPITA, Washington University - Rudolf Husar
  4. Open Discussion
1:00 Optional Session: Modeling (Governor's Square 11)
1:30 Modeling Breakout Session (Governor's Square 11)

2002 Model Performance Results + plans for NAAQS SIP attainment modeling (10 min/RPO)

  1. MRPO - Kirk Baker
  2. CENRAP - Calvin Ku
  3. WRAP - Gail Tonneson
  4. VISTAS - Jim Boylan (not presented)
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM

Emissions Inventory (Governor's Square 11) – separate group meeting
(20 minutes/RPO)

  1. MANE-VU Future Year Inventories - Megan Schuster
  2. Growth and Control for LADCO Round2 Modeling - Mark Janssen
  3. CENRAP EI Update - Lisa Brenneman

Modeling/Monitoring & Data Analysis (Governor's Square 12) - joint session - Weight-of-Evidence approaches
Compile toolbox of analytical techniques to be used in WoE for SIPs
(all 15 min.)

  1. EPA Guidance on WoE - Brian Timin
  2. WRAP - Tom Moore
  3. VISTAS - Pat Brewer
  4. MANE-VU - Gary Kleiman
  5. MidWest RPO - Donna Kenski
  6. CenRAP - Annette Sharp/Bret Anderson
  7. Open discussion - All (30 min)
5:00 PM Adjourn for the day
8:30 AM

Emissions (Governor's Square 10) – separate group meeting
Topic of National Interest
(includes break)

  1. National Wildfire EI Project - Dave Randall (25 min.)
  2. SPECIATE Database/EPA Tools/Data Update - Marc Houyoux (25 min.)
  3. Canada/Mexico EI Update (no presentation) (10 min.)
  4. 2002 NEI Lessons Learned/RPO EI Comparison Project - Marc Houyoux (15 min.)
  5. New Ammonia Model - Mark Janssen (? min.)
  6. ConCEPT Emissions Model - Mark Janssen (? min.)
  7. EI Warehouse Project - Megan Schuster (15 min.)

(action items)

Modeling (Governor's Square 11) – separate group meeting

  1. Modeling to Support BART - Kirk Baker
  2. EPA Reasonable Progress Modeling Guidance - Brian Timin (20 minutes)
  3. Details of the RRF calculation – VISTAS White Paper – Ralph Morris (45 min) [What if model performance is very poor on some of the best or worst days? Should some monitored days not be used in the RRF?]
  4. RRF for WRAP examples dust/fire – Ralph Morris (45 min) – poor performance in general
    • What if the 20% worst days in the modeling year (2002) contain "extreme" events (e.g. large wildfires)?
    • Discussion how to handle in the RRF test - rounding or truncation of deciviews; how many significant digits to use?
  5. Open Discussion

(action items)

Monitoring/Data Analysis (Governor's Square 12) – separate group meeting
(includes break)

8:00 VIEWS Status/Examples
8:45 FASTNET Status
9:00am Monitoring strategy guidance for SIPs:
  1. Brief overview of SIP Requirements - Tom Moore
  2. IMPROVE monitoring for haze trends - Marc Pitchford
  3. Working Session to develop strategies for other monitoring requirements, for example for model evaluation, source attribution, to check emission rates/activity, for better understanding of causes of haze, etc.

(action items)

11:30 AM Plenary (Governor's Square 12) - Review of action items for each Discussion Group (10 minutes/group) and proposed next National Meeting date
12:00 PM
National RPO Technical Meeting Adjourns

 

 
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