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If you still are unable to open the Powerpoint (PPT) or Adobe (PDF) files, you can email John Hornback at hornback@metro4-sesarm.org

I.    VISTAS Summary Materials

A.  VISTAS Summary Report for FLM Consultation Meeting June 12, 2007 PDF
B.  VISTAS Meeting Notes for Consultation Meeting with FLMs June 12, 2007 PDF
C.  VISTAS Summary Presentation PPT PDF
D.  Summary Presentations for each Class I Area PPT PDF

Mountains Groupings
1.   Great Smoky Mtns (5 sites) PPT PDF
2.   Mammoth Cave PPT PDF
3.   Sipsey PPT PDF
4.   Shenandoah (4 sites) PPT PDF
Coastal Groupings
5.   Swanquarter PPT PDF
6.   Cape Romain PPT PDF
7.   Okefenofee (4 sites) PPT PDF
8.   Everglades PPT PDF
Neighboring Sites
9.   Breton PPT PDF
10. Mingo (4 sites) PPT PDF
11. Brigantine PPT PDF

II.    Monitoring

A.  Conceptual Description: Final Report by Air Resource Specialists


For additional data as listed below go to:  Air Resource Specialist ftp site at
ftp://ftp.air-resource.com/VISTAS

1.   Justification of New IMPROVE equation
2.   Current Conditions:  20% worst days, 20% best days, annual average, timelines
3.   Natural Background Conditions
4.   Uniform Rate of Progress Glide Path
5.   ARS May 2003 report, Brewer and Adlhoch, 2005 AWMA paper

Also see VIEWS website at http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/views

B.  Classification and Regression Tree Analyses Final Report by System Applications International

1.   Meteorological parameters related to 5 visibility classes
2.   2002 conditions compared to 2000-2004 baseline period

C.  Special Monitoring Studies

1.   Continuous Monitoring PPT PDF
2.   Carbon Studies PPT PDF

III.   Emissions Inventory:  Base G2 and Best and Final 2002, 2009, and 2018 Emissions Inventories for VISTAS

A.  Inventory Data Summary:  VISTAS States:  point, area, on road mobile, non road mobile, annual average, organized at county and SCC tier level for 2002 actual, 2002 typical, 2009, 2018 and 2008 for northern KY. (Summary datasets will be posted)

B.  2002 Original Methods Reports

1.   MACTEC 2002 area source inventory report
2.   MACTEC 2002 point source inventory report
3.   Pechan 2002 Onroad and Nonroad inventory report

IV.  Meteorological Modeling

A.  Selection of 2002 as Base Year
B.  Meteorological data
C.  MM5 QAPP
D.  MM5 2002 model performance
E.  Final report, data sets

V.  Air Quality Modeling Emissions and Air Quality Modeling Technical Support Document by ENVIRON


For additional information go to University of California Riverside website: http://pah.cert.ucr.edu/vistas/vistas2/index.shtml

A.  Modeling Approach
B.  Emissons Modeling
C.  CMAQ 2002 Model Performance Evaluation
D.  2018 Base G2 Visibilty Project
E.   Additional Supporting Analysis (Alternative calculations of relative response factors, Contributions from International Emissions, and Geographic Area of Influence analyses)

For information on 2009 and 2018 Emissions Sensitivities (Base D, Base G) Go to Georgia Institute of Technology website: http://www.ce.gatech.edu/research/vistas/products.htm

Harvard Final report on GEOS-Chem global modeling that was used to develop VISTAS boundary conditions and to estimate contributions from international emissions

VI. BART

A.  VISTAS BART Modeling Protocol
B.  Final BART Modeling Report by TRC, Inc. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
C.  Surface observation data sets and five CALMET 4-km subdomains over VISTAS states

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