International Air Quality Advisory Board
SPECIAL REPORT ON
November 1998
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| ADOM | Acid Deposition Oxidants Model (Canadian Eulerian model) | |
| AOI(s) | Area(s) of Influence | |
| AOV(s) | Area(s) of Violation | |
| BAT | best available technology | |
| CAFÉ | Corporate Average Fuel Economy | |
| CAPMoN | Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network | |
| CASAC | Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee | |
| CEC | Commission for Environmental Cooperation | |
| CFC(s) | chlorofluorocarbon(s) | |
| CO2 | carbon dioxide | |
| DDT | dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | |
| ECOS | Environmental Council of States | |
| ECTSIG | Eastern Canada Transboundary Smog Issue Group | |
| EMAN | Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (Canada) | |
| EMAP | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S.) | |
| EMEFS | Eulerian Model Evaluation Field Study | |
| EMEP | European Monitoring and Evaluation Project | |
| ERP | External Review Panel | |
| FERC | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | |
| G.V.R.D. | Greater Vancouver Regional District | |
| HCB | hexachlorobenzene | |
| IADN | Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network | |
| IAQAB | International Air Quality Advisory Board | |
| IJC | International Joint Commission | |
| IMPROVE | Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments | |
| LEVs | low-emission vehicles | |
| LRTAP | Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution | |
| NADP | National Atmospheric Deposition Program | |
| NARSTO | North American Research Strategy on Tropospheric Ozone | |
| NEG/EP | New England Governors and Eastern Premiers Association | |
| NESCAUM | Northeastern States for Co-ordinated Air Use Management | |
| NO | nitric oxide | |
| NO2 | nitrogen dioxide | |
| NOX | nitrogen oxides | |
| NPRI | National Pollutant Release Inventory | |
| NSMP | National Smog Management Plan | |
| NSR | New Source Review | |
| O3 | ozone | |
| OTAG | Ozone Transport Assessment Group | |
| OTR | Ozone Transport Region | |
| PAH(s) | polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(s) | |
| PCB(s) | polychlorinated biphenyl(s) | |
| PICs | products of incomplete combustion | |
| PCDDs | polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin | |
| PCDFs | polychlorinated dibenzo furans | |
| PM10 | particulate matter (<10 microns) | |
| PM2.5 | fine particulate matter (<2.5 microns) | |
| POP(s) | persistent organic pollutant(s) | |
| PRTR | Pollutant Release and Transfer Register | |
| PTS(s) | persistent toxic substance(s) | |
| RADM | Regional Acid Deposition Model (U.S. Eulerian model) | |
| RAMPs | Regional Air Management Partnerships | |
| RETC | Registro de Emisiones y Transferencia de Contaminantes (Mexico) | |
| RIPs | Regionally Integrated Plans | |
| ROSA | Regional Ozone Study Area | |
| RSMPs | Regional Smog Management Plans | |
| SIPs | state implementation plans | |
| SO2 | sulfur dioxide | |
| SOX | sulfur oxides | |
| SOMA | Sulfur Oxides Management Area | |
| TAPTR(s) | Transboundary Air Pollution Transport Region(s) | |
| TRI | Toxic Release Inventory | |
| TSP | total suspended particulate | |
| UNECE | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe | |
| ZEVs | zero-emission vehicles
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