Modeling Air Pollution Episodes at a Shoreline Lake Michigan Site
Abstract
There are many atmospheric reactions that attribute to the levels of ozone in the troposphere. To better quantify ozone levels during a high ozone episode at a site, Chiwaukee Prairie, where our group sampled ozone via an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in June 2020. I am currently working with a box model on MATLAB that can compute ozone concentration from a defined source region in Chicago, IL. By using historic data sets, information such as HYSPLIT back trajectories, atmospheric profiles from the UAS, and ground-based monitoring data, we can compute how an air parcel produces ozone that arrives at Chiwaukee Prairie on a given day. Modeling ozone concentrations in the troposphere is important to understand how to improve the air quality, making it safer to breathe.
Subject
Air quality
Lake Michigan
Ozone measurement
Posters
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Permanent Link
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/83416Description
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