Session 5B Regional Air Quality

Tuesday, 30 January 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
321/322 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Submitters:
Steven S. Brown; Glenn M. Wolfe, GSFC, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD; Allison M. Ring and Laura Judd

Air quality is a global public health challenge with regionally-specific drivers and control strategies. Variations in meteorology and climate coupled with emission source types and atmospheric chemical processes lead to diverse air quality impacts at regional scale. This session solicits submissions from observational and modeling studies on air pollution in different regions within North America and around the world. Observational studies that include remote sensing, in-situ measurements, analysis from recent field intensives or a combination of these approaches are encouraged. Laboratory studies of important atmospheric chemical processes and progress toward the development of chemical mechanisms are also of interest. Modeling studies that use observations and laboratory data to improve predictive skills of air quality are welcome. Relevant air quality issues include, but are not limited to, near-surface ozone, fine particles, smoke from wild and prescribed fires, visibility, regional haze, air quality-climate interactions, emissions and trends, and inequities in pollutant exposure and health impacts.

Papers:
8:30 AM
5B.1
The State of Maryland Air Quality Science, Policy, Research, and Relevance in Contemporary Times
Joel Dreessen, Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore, MD

Handout (4.4 MB)

8:45 AM
5B.2
Environmental Justice in Baltimore, MD: Insight from BC Measurements from a Mobile Laboratory
Russell R. Dickerson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and X. Ren, P. Stratton, and J. Dreessen

9:00 AM
5B.3
Regional Chemical Transport Modeling to Assess Emissions Reduction Strategies in the Northeastern U.S.
Alexandra Karambelas, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), Boston, MA; and P. Miller

9:15 AM
5B.4
Ozone Formation Sensitivity in the Great Lakes Region: Insights from a Weekday-Weekend Analysis Coupled with Examination of Trends over Space and Time
Angela F Dickens, Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium (LADCO), Hillside, IL; and Z. Adelman and T. Nergui

9:30 AM
5B.5
Summary and First Results from Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas (AEROMMA 2023)
Carsten Warneke, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and R. H. Schwantes, B. McDonald, P. R. Veres, A. Rollins, S. S. Brown, and L. Judd

9:45 AM
5B.6
Coastal Urban Plume Dynamics Study (CUPiDS)
Sunil Baidar, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA CSL, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Brewer, S. S. Brown, R. Volkamer, B. J. McCarty, B. J. Carroll, R. Marchbanks, M. Zucker, E. J. Strobach, Y. L. Pichugina, M. W. Holloway, C. J. Senff, A. O. Langford, R. Alvarez II, S. Sandberg, K. Zuraski, J. Peischl, Q. Z. Rasool, N. Silver, R. Mesburis, C. F. Lee, and M. Reza

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