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Western Regional Air PartnershipEmissions Database Management System
Presentation to Fire Emissions Joint ForumLas Vegas, NevadaDecember 09, 2004
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Presentation Organization
• EDMS Purpose
• EDMS Status
• Fire Module White Paper
• Phase II Options
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Purpose
• Regional Haze Rule• Implementation• Performance Monitoring
• Region-Wide Emission Inventory
• Analysis of Collected Data
• Emissions Comparisons
• Emissions Trends Analysis
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Status
Interface CompletePoint, Area, On-Road Mobile, Non-Road Mobile
Populated by Agency-supplied data supplemented by EPA 2002 Preliminary Inventory, ongoing
Biogenic Data from RMC being converted and loaded.Wind Blown Dust, Fire
WRAP Inventories to be forwarded.
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wrapedms.org
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GIS Interface
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Standard Reports
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Fire Module White Paper
• Catalogs fire-related data elements for • Wildfires• Prescribed Burns• Agricultural Burns
• Provides schematic for the EDMS Fire Module
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Schematic – no shading
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Fire Module Subtasks
• Identified by FEJF and EDMS Steering Committee
Development Order
Task
Independent Daily Smoke Management
1 State/Local/Tribal Fire Protocol
2 Fire Activity Data Formats
3 Emissions Data Processing
4 Fire Emissions Model Integration
5 Estimate Emissions Processing
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Subtask: Daily Smoke Management
• Data providers can submit data• Visualize information in GIS• Track daily smoke activity• Not an emissions inventory activity
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Subtask: State/Local/Tribal Data Protocol
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Schematic – SLT Data Protocol
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Subtask: State/Local/Tribal Data Protocol
• Accept fire emissions and supporting activity data• Support WRAP Fire Tracking System policy• Support 309 fire emissions tracking elements • Separate inventories from modeling tracking• Support up to 10 import formats
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Subtask: Fire Activity Data Formats
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Schematic: Fire Activity Data Formats
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Subtask: Fire Activity Data Formats
• Accept fire activity data
• Separate inventories from modeling tracking
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Subtask: Emissions Data Processing
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Schematic: Emissions Data Processing
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Subtask: Emissions Data Processing
Includes • estimating or accepting event-level consumption• estimating event-level emissions • converting emissions to hourly • calculating boundary layer/lofted emissions• estimating monthly county level consumptions.
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Subtask: Fire Emissions Model Integration
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Schematic: Fire Emissions Model Integration
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Subtask: Fire Emissions Model Integration
• Analyze relative merits of models for WRAP data providers
• Determine implementation order• Determine implementation approach
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Subtask: Estimate Emissions Processing
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Subtask: Estimate Emissions Processing
• Develop tools and procedures to estimate changes from goals and control scenarios
• Create adjustment factors to be used planning and tracking
• Modify inventories for modeling and analysis
Summary