Emissions preparation and analysis for multiscale air quality modeling over the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of Alberta, Canada

Zhang, Junhua; Moran, Michael D.; Zheng, Qiong; Makar, Paul A.; Baratzadeh, Pegah; Marson, George; Liu, Peter; Li, Shao-Meng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10459-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10459-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-10459-2018

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Articles | Volume 18, issue 14

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23 Jul 2018

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| 23 Jul 2018

Emissions preparation and analysis for multiscale air quality modeling over the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of Alberta, Canada

Junhua Zhang, Michael D. Moran, Qiong Zheng, Paul A. Makar, Pegah Baratzadeh, George Marson, Peter Liu, and Shao-Meng Li

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This paper discusses the development of new synthesized emissions inventories and the generation of air quality model-ready emissions files for the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of Alberta, Canada, using multiple emissions inventories, continuous emissions monitoring data, and inferred emission rates based on aircraft measurements. Novel facility-specific gridded spatial surrogate fields were generated to allocate emissions spatially within each huge mining facility.