Western Regional Air Partnership Emissions Database Management System

Western Regional Air Partnership Emissions Database Management System Presentation to Fire Emissions Joint Forum Las Vegas, Nevada December 09, 2004 E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc.

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Presentation Organization • • EDMS Purpose EDMS Status Fire Module White Paper Phase II Options 2

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Purpose • Regional Haze Rule • Implementation • Performance Monitoring • • Region-Wide Emission Inventory Analysis of Collected Data Emissions Comparisons Emissions Trends Analysis 3

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Status Interface Complete Point, 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. 4

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. wrapedms. org 5

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. GIS Interface 6

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Standard Reports 7

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Fire Module White Paper • Catalogs fire-related data elements for • Wildfires • Prescribed Burns • Agricultural Burns • Provides schematic for the EDMS Fire Module 8

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Schematic – no shading 9

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Fire Module Subtasks • Identified by FEJF and EDMS Steering Committee Development Task Order 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 10

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Daily Smoke Management • • Data providers can submit data Visualize information in GIS Track daily smoke activity Not an emissions inventory activity 11

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: State/Local/Tribal Data Protocol

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Schematic – SLT Data Protocol 13

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. 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 14

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Fire Activity Data Formats

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Schematic: Fire Activity Data Formats 16

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Fire Activity Data Formats • Accept fire activity data • Separate inventories from modeling tracking 17

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Emissions Data Processing

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Schematic: Emissions Data Processing 19

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. 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. 20

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Fire Emissions Model Integration

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Schematic: Fire Emissions Model Integration 22

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Fire Emissions Model Integration • Analyze relative merits of models for WRAP data providers • Determine implementation order • Determine implementation approach 23

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. Subtask: Estimate Emissions Processing

E. H. Pechan & Associates, Inc. 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 25

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