2008-08-01: EPA STAR RFP
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[edit] Adaptation for Future Air Quality Analysis and Decision Support Tools in Light of Global Change Impacts and Mitigation
Consequences for air quality of global change - including climate, climate variability, land-use, economic development, and technology. EPA is interested in supporting research that will further the scientific understanding of how to better adapt the air quality management system to effectively account for climate change and related mitigation impacts.
The overall framework for assessing the potential consequences of global changes on air quality in this RFA is the Global Change Multi-year Plan
Planners must account for not only the direct and indirect effects of climate on air quality, but also
- technology changes,
- demographic changes, and
- changing economic considerations.
Multiple scales. Long tome scale,..2050. Modeling tools not adequate. Climate model downscaling. Waterbed effect: Change one, unintended consequences.. Regional Haze Rule, trend chart)
Specific Research Areas of Interest/Expected Outputs and Outcomes:
- What research is needed to better adapt current modeling systems?
- Both reduce green house gas emissions and meet air quality objectives?
- Air quality/climate impacts of “cool cities” measures
- Changing global economy impact the AQ freight handling
- Increase in fires from climate change impact of air quality?
- Global change Tech & policy choices impact on local air quality in 2050
- Climate and air quality impacts of forestation to sequester carbon?
- Co-benefits to climate and AQ from energy efficiency
- Agricultural practices -reduction of GHG and AQ emissions?
- Changes in land use impact climate and air quality?
[edit] Abstract 1p
- RFP, Project Title, Investigators, Institution, Period, Location, Cost
- Project Summary
[edit] Research Plan 15p
- Objectives
- Approach/Activities
- Expected Results
- General Project info
- Appendices
[edit] Quality Assurance 3p
- Individual responsible for QA
- Quality Objectives
- Other
- Collection of new data
- Use of existing/secondary data
- Method development
- Dev & Refinement of models
- Conducting Surveys
- Data Management Activities
[edit] Data Plan 2p
[edit] References
We encourage submission of abstracts to the Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology session PP03: “Loess 2.0” for the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA to be held December 15-19, 2008:
Conveners: Bjoern Machalett, Rick Oches, Helen Roberts, ZhongPing Lai
In recent years, rapid advances in the application of highly resolved sedimentological and geochemical studies, in combination with various geochronometric techniques and chronostratigraphic tools, have opened up new vistas in the investigation of paleo-records of atmospheric dust loading using loess deposits. Loess sequences preserve detailed archives of climate change, reflecting the dynamics of eolian dust transport and sedimentation, and changes in the dust content of the atmosphere. As those sediments are widespread on the continents, novel multi-proxy investigations enhance our understanding of long-term eolian dust dynamics and climate variability, linking inter-hemispheric climates on time scales ranging from glacial-interglacial to (sub)millennial.
Innovative contributions are welcome on the application of new and established methodological approaches and results on stratigraphy, geochronology, paleoenvironmental assessment, and geoarchaeology of loess deposits in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, e.g. in North and South America, or along the great Eurasian loess belt from SE Europe to Central Asia and China. We especially encourage papers that either
(a) utilize high-resolution loess records to reconstruct the timing and dynamics of past synoptic atmospheric circulation patterns on regional and inter-hemispheric scales;
(b) establish precise correlations and define atmospheric mechanisms that link continental loess/dust records with dust records in ice cores and/or the oceans; or
(c) address the challenging effort to incorporate the loess proxies of past atmospheric processes into climate models. Student submissions are encouraged and may be eligible for consideration for Outstanding Student Paper awards.
[edit] Notes
- Purpose of proposal: further scientific understanding of how to better adapt AQ mgmt system to account for climate change and related mitigation impacts.
- We have been working on the monitoring -> assessment -> Decisions, this proposal is asking in the 2nd research question to evaluate the decisions for their potential consequences to aq and climate change.
- One of the long-term goals of EPA's GCRP is that air quality managers and decision makers in the states and EPA regional and program offices will use scientific information and models from EPA's research and assessment program to evaluate and implement adaptation policies that protect air quality from the impacts of global change. Global Change
- This would be a valuable addition to DSS creation/operation.
- Idea is to model the control -> Earth arrow with the causality framework.
- How does policy effect activities > goods/services > material flow > concentration > effect > risk
- How do we model effect or risk?
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