(a) General Background – including a discussion of pollutants, meteorological factors, chemistry, and air pollution history
- (1) Criteria pollutants discussed will be ozone, particulate matter , carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, lead, sulfates, hydrogen sulfide, vinyl chloride, and visibility reducing particles
- (2) Meteorological factors discussed will be wind speed & direction, atmospheric stability, turbulence, solar and terrestrial radiation, and topography
- (3) Chemistry discussion will include local versus regional, primary versus secondary, and chemical formation of ozone and particulate matter
(b) Discussion of regulatory efforts of federal, state, and local jurisdictions
(c) Discussion of inventories of emissions and monitoring and modeling of ambient concentrations
(d) How to present information for decision makers and the public in an environmental document.
- (1) Real-world examples of what goes in to an air quality analysis, including background search, data gathering, determination of effects, significance standards, mitigations, cumulative effects, and special studies
- (2) Hands-on instruction on various California-based models used in air quality analyses, e.g. URBEMIS, CalEEMod, CALINE
