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  • Environmental Science
  • Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Air Quality Modeling

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  • Permitting new pollution sources requires accurate air quality analyses, often using models like AERMOD.
  • Adding background pollutant concentrations to modeled data is crucial for compliance with air quality standards.
  • Existing methods can overestimate impacts by not accounting for the seasonality of emissions and background concentrations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop improved methods for air quality analyses in permitting processes.
  • To address the overestimation of air quality impacts caused by combining unpaired temporal distributions of modeled and background pollutant concentrations.
  • To provide a more scientifically defensible approach for assessing new source impacts.

Main Methods:

  • Developed daily gridded background pollutant concentrations using Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) forecasts and monitored data, achieving 6.2% accuracy.
  • Implemented a Monte Carlo (MC) method to combine AERMOD output with background concentrations, respecting their seasonality.
  • Calculated 1000 estimates of the 98th or 99th percentiles by randomly pairing data from the same months.

Main Results:

  • The MC method provides a median estimate that is less conservative than summing AERMOD and background design values.
  • Measured design values were at the lower end of the distribution, while AERMOD + background design values were at the upper end.
  • The MC method offers a balance, ensuring protection of public health by slightly overestimating design concentrations.

Conclusions:

  • The developed MC method and daily gridded background concentrations offer a more robust and scientifically defensible approach to air quality permitting.
  • This method helps applicants demonstrate compliance and avoid overly restrictive emission controls.
  • Calculating exceedance probabilities informs regulators, leading to better-informed permitting decisions.