ERTAC Background

Purpose of ERTAC is to coordinate emissions inventories needed for air quality modeling, and provide a technical- (not policy-) driven process for developing and improving emissions inventories. These inventories will focus on the Eastern US for 2008.

 

Founding Principles.

5 Top Priority Projects

The ERTAC groups agreed that the most urgent needs given limited resources were the following.

Locomotives and Rail

Initial Write UP

 

ERTAC Rail Page

Area Source Comparability

Initial Write UP

 

Final Spreadsheet November 23rd 2009

 

ERTAC Area Comparability Page

Agricultural Ammonia(NH3)

Initial Write UP

 

ERTAC Agricultural Ammonia Page

Mobile Organic Carbon

Initial Write UP

 

ERTAC Mobile OC Page

Marine Vessels

Initial Write UP

 

ERTAC Marine Vessels Page

Other ERTAC Projects

These Projects were discussed and some in the group had interest but they did not make the list of priority projects that will be done after the priority projects are completed or by individual groups.

 

2005 Emission Inventory

Initial Write Up

Agricultural Equipment

Initial Write UP

Canadian Inventory

Initial Write UP

EGU Temporal and CEM Data

Initial Write UP

Wildfires and Prescribed Burns

Initial Write UP

IPM and Electric Utility Growth

Initial Write UP