The 1997 Southern California ozone study-NARSTO: Quality assurance and data management
- Desert Research Inst., Reno, NV (United States)
During the summer of 1997, a consortium of state, local, and federal agencies sponsored the 1997 Southern California Ozone Study (SCOS97) under the Charter of the North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO). The goals of the study are to update and improve the existing aerometric and emission databases and model applications for representing urban-scale ozone episodes in southern California, and to quantify the contributions of ozone generated from emissions in southern California air basins to federal and state ozone standard exceedances in neighboring air basins. These goals are to be met through a five-year process which includes analysis of existing data; execution of a large-scale field study to acquire a comprehensive database to support modeling and analysis; analysis of the data collected during the field study; and the improvement, evaluation, and application of an air quality simulation model for southern California. This paper describes the elements and technical approach for the quality assurance and data management activities for SCOS97-NARSTO. It specifies system and performance audits and field and laboratory comparisons that were conducted in order to ensure that measured data meet the end-use requirements for air quality and meteorological model input and evaluation, and data analyses. This paper also describes the integration of quality assurance with the data management and archiving tasks.
- OSTI ID:
- 362012
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980632-; TRN: IM9933%%396
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 91. annual meeting and exhibition of the Air and Waste Management Association, San Diego, CA (United States), 14-18 Jun 1998; Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 91. annual meeting and exhibition. Bridging international boundaries: Clean production for environmental stewardship; PB: [5000] p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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