Western Regional Air Partnership Emissions Database Management System Presentation to Fire Emissions...

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