Urban ozone monitoring network efficiency for exposure assessment, redundancy, and NAAQS compliance
- Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Austin, TX (United States)
The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) has been conducting a study of the amount of information derived from its ozone monitoring network. To facilitate this work, the authors have constructed a comprehensive air quality and meteorological database called the Monitoring Operations Texas Historical Environmental Records (MOTHER) Database. Using MOTHER and the 1990 US Census database, they have developed an approach for ranking monitors based on multiple objectives of minimizing site redundancy, maximizing the likelihood of recording an area-wide one-hour maximum, and maximizing the ability to do population exposure assessment. The authors have applied this technique to the public ozone monitoring networks (TNRCC and local city monitors) in the Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth areas. Results show that in both areas some monitors appear to provide little value-added to the network, and are thus candidates for removal or re-siting.
- OSTI ID:
- 353500
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970677--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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