Aggregate Source-receptor Relations for Economic Analysis of Ambient Regulations |
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| Authors: | Charles D Kolstad Michael D Williams |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Illinois , Urbana , Illinois , USA;2. Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos , New Mexico , USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to describe a new approach for determining the relationship between aggregate pollutant emissions and ambient concentrations in an air basin. The approach is to use a detailed meteorological model to generate a large set of pseudodata on specific source-receptor relationships. This data is then statistically reduced to a simple relationship between aggregate emissions and pollution concentration averages or maxima. In the paper, we give a justification for the approach and an empirical application to the Petrified Forest region of Arizona. |
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