CEE 415
Environmental
Measurements
AIR
: FALL 2009
Instructor: Prof. Tom Jobson
Email: tjobson@wsu.edu
Office hours: Monday 2-4, Dana 302A
Lab Instructor: Lee Bamesberger
Email: bamesber@wsu.edu
Office: Dana 313
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PDF
files of all the instrument manuals used in the lab can be found here.
REFERENCE PAPERS
Here
is a review of flow control devices that is an easy to follow.
Pen
Ray Lamps
A
good, brief technical document on IR detection
This
is a very long EPA document about O3. EPA is thinking about changing the O3
standard (fact sheet). There is some useful information about all
aspects of O3. The Background
Section is interesting in that it describes the political and legal brawling
that goes on over air quality standards.
USEFUL WEBSITES
Calibrate
your eyeballs with this video from the California Air Resources Board.
How
bad do you think urban air quality would be if we didn’t have emissions
controls in place?
Photochemical
“smog” was an extreme problem for
This
is the legal document that states the standards for criteria pollutants and how
to measure them.
EPA
Standards and Methods for Criteria Air Pollutants
This
EPA website is a good place for information on air pollution.
This
website shows current air quality conditions for the country from ground based
monitoring networks.
This
website displays data from a chemical forecast model for our region. How do our
Pacific Northwest Chemical Forecast
(AIRPACT-3)
MODIS satellite views of
the ocean, land, and atmosphere
Global Monitoring ozone hole movies and global pollutant
concentrations
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