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The suitability of low-cost urban airshed modeling in the Chicago area [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1994.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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4 pages : digital, PDF file
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Argonne National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The interesting composition of the utility mix in the Chicago region and the potential for electric vehicle use in that area make it an interesting candidate for emissions sensitivity and scenario studies. However, it is difficult to apply the Urban Airshed Model (UAM) to the Chicago region because of the complex meteorology associated with Lake Michigan. The Lake Michigan Air Directors consortium (LADCO) has developed, at considerable expense, an improved version with nested grids and embedded plumes (UAM-V) for application in the Lake Michigan Ozone Study (LMOS) and for regulatory use. The complexity of the LMOS modeling system makes it costly and time-consuming to implement. In this study, the authors apply UAM-IV (US Environmental Protection, 1990a) in its simple ``PLANR (Practice for Low-cost Application in Nonattainment Regions)`` mode (US Environmental Protect Agency, 1990b) to the Chicago region to study various interesting scenarios in a rapid and low-cost manner. The details of the data sets, methods and results of this study are contained in Fernau et al. and are summarized here. In addition, the authors comment on the usefulness of this type of limited-data study as compared to more complex modeling systems and data inputs.
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E 1.99:anl/dis/cp--81382
E 1.99: conf-940115--21
conf-940115--21
anl/dis/cp--81382
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1994.
"anl/dis/cp--81382"
" conf-940115--21"
"DE94005114"
8. Joint conference on applications of air pollution meterology. 74. American Meteorological Society annual meeting,Nashville, TN (United States),23-28 Jan 1994.
South, D.W.; Fernau, M.E.; Makofske, W.J.
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W-31109-ENG-38
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