Design and demonstration of a next-generation air quality attainment assessment system for PM2.5 and O3
Hua Wang , Yun Zhu
,
Carey Jang
,
Che-Jen Lin
,
Shuxiao Wang
,
Joshua S. Fu
,
Jian Gao
,
Shuang Deng
,
Junping Xie
,
Dian Ding
,
Xuezhen Qiu
,
Shicheng Long
DOI:10.1016/j.jes.2014.08.023
Received March 11, 2014,Revised August 06, 2014, Accepted , Available online March 13, 2015
Volume 27,2015,Pages 178-188
Due to the increasingly stringent standards, it is important to assess whether the proposed emission reduction will result in ambient concentrations that meet the standards. The Software for Model Attainment Test—Community Edition (SMAT-CE) is developed for demonstrating attainment of air quality standards of O3 and PM2.5. SMAT-CE improves computational efficiency and provides a number of advanced visualization and analytical functionalities on an integrated GIS platform. SMAT-CE incorporates historical measurements of air quality parameters and simulated air pollutant concentrations under a number of emission inventory scenarios to project the level of compliance to air quality standards in a targeted future year. An application case study of the software based on the U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) shows that SMAT-CE is capable of demonstrating the air quality attainment of annual PM2.5 and 8-hour O3 for a proposed emission control policy.
