Modeling visibility for emissions policy assessment
Conference
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OSTI ID:244581
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Environmental Research Div.
An efficient method for simulating and assessing regional-scale visual impairment is described. The method applies Monte Carlo methods to generate realistic within-season distributions of visual impairment and requires input only of distributional statistics from particle monitoring data, relative humidity climatology, and seasonal mean concentrations predicted with a regional transport model for the various emission scenarios examined. Simulated distributions of visual impairment for a representative rural site in the eastern US are demonstrated to compare favorably with observations.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 244581
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/ER/CP--90106; CONF-9606207--1; ON: DE96011148
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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