INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION
1999 GREAT LAKES WATER QUALITY FORUM
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 1999

International Air Quality Advisory Board
on HYPSLIT Modeling of Transport and Deposition
Great Lakes basin
at the IAQAB Workshop:
"Tracking Sources of Atmospheric Pollution
to the Great Lakes"
Saturday, September 25, 1999
Presented by Dr. Mark Cohen

Return to Annex 15 Public Meeting

Slides

  1. Title Slide
  2. Atmospheric Pathway: Presentation Summary
  3. Individual Contributors and Contributions
  4. Pollutant Pathways
  5. Binational Toxic Strategy (BNS) Compounds
  6. Previous Estimated Atmospheric Loadings for Various Pollutants
  7. Methodology: Flow Chart
  8. Possible/Feasible Pollutants for Study
  9. Limiting Factor: Emissions Inventories
  10. Available Inventories - BNS Pollutants
  11. Final Feasible Pollutants
  12. 95/96 Dioxin Emissions by Sector (U.S. and Canada)
  13. Total Dioxin Emissions - Medical Waste Incineration ('95-'96)
  14. Total Dioxin Emissions - Municipal Solid Waste Incineration ('95-'96)
  15. Total Dioxin Emissions - Cement Kilns ('95-'96)
  16. Total Dioxin Emissions - Iron Sintering ('95-'96)
  17. Total Dioxin Emissions ('95-'96)
  18. Dioxin Emissions by State and Province
  19. Major Sources Displayed by Category
  20. Transport Mechanism Factors
  21. Lagrangian Puff Model Components
  22. Fraction of U.S./Canadian Dioxin Emissions Deposited to Lake Superior (1966)
  23. Comparison of Model Predictions with Ambient Measurements
  24. Illustrated Example of Dioxin Modeling Results
  25. Dioxin from Specific Counties to Lake Superior (U.S. and Canada)
  26. Deposition to Lake Superior from Specific States and Provinces
  27. Distance as Factor - Deposition to Individual Great Lakes
  28. Population Distribution - Great Lakes Basin
  29. Relative Dioxin Contribution to Individual Lakes from Sources Internal and External to the Basin
  30. Contribution of Dioxin to Great Lakes from Great Lakes States and Province
  31. Contribution to Individual Great Lakes from Specific Source Sectors
  32. CBNS Atrazine Emissions Inventory for 1991
  33. Annual Distribution - Atrazine Usage (U.S./Canada)
  34. Distribution of Annual Atrazine Emission Factors (U.S./Canada)
  35. Total Atrazine Emissions for 1991
  36. Emissions of Atrazine by Week (1991)
  37. Estimated Deposit of Atrazine to Lake Superior from Hypothetical Unit Source
  38. Ambient Atrazine Monitoring Sites
  39. Comparison of Measurements and Model Predictions of Atrazine
  40. County Contribution to Atrazine Deposition in Lake Superior
  41. Estimated Deposition of Atrazine to Great Lakes
  42. Concluding Observations