Regional background ozone in the eastern half of Texas Air Quality Division Mark Estes, Jim Smith & Fernando Mercado Texas Commission on Environmental.

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Regional background ozone in the eastern half of Texas Air Quality Division Mark Estes, Jim Smith & Fernando Mercado Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Austin, TX Presented at: CMAS 2014 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 29 October 2014

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 2 Outline For these analyses, “regional background ozone” is the ozone transported into the area such that local emissions have little influence upon the ozone concentrations. Background ozone estimates for Houston and Dallas Factors affecting background ozone: Wind run or ventilation index as a measure of stagnation Local and regional ventilation, and the relationship to background and locally-formed ozone Transport patterns and their relationship to background ozone

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 3 Method: Background ozone estimated at upwind sites Select sites in/near the urban area that are capable of measuring background ozone, given the proper conditions. These sites are not located near large emission sources Calculate Maximum Daily Average 8-hour (MDA8) ozone concentration for each site. Select the lowest MDA8 ozone concentration from the subset of background sites. Ozone season defined as April 1 – Oct 31.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 4 Sites outside the red boundary are able to measure background ozone reliably; sites inside often do not, due to influence from local sources.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 5 Mean background: 32.3 ppbv Median: 30 ppbv 95 th percentile: 58 ppbv

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 6 Mean background: 41.2 ppbv Median: 40 ppbv 95 th percentile: 63 ppbv

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Questions Is the upwind-downwind technique sufficient to isolate the background contribution from the local contribution of ozone? Are high background O3 values caused by local emissions? Is the stagnation associated with high ozone local or regional? Use ventilation index and trajectory analyses to address these questions for ozone seasons of

Ventilation index (i.e., wind run) Simple technique follows Allwine and Whiteman (1994) method of estimating ventilation from wind speed and direction data. Vector addition of uv wind vectors to determine “wind run”, which is the distance that an air parcel could travel if it moved at the speed and direction indicated by the wind measurements at the site.

C8Aldine C11Clute C15Channelview C26NW Harris C35Deer Park C45Seabrook C53Bayland Park C78Conroe C84Manvel Croix C96Smith Point C145Shore Acres C148Baytown C169Milby Park C403Clinton C404Houston Kirkpatrick C409Houston Croquet C410Houston Westhollow C416Park Place C617Wallisville Road C618Danciger C619Mustang Bayou C620Texas City 34th St C1015Lynchburg Ferry C1016Lake Jackson C1020Cesar Chavez C1022Texas City Ballpark C1029Manchester C1034Galveston 99th Houston metro area monitoring sites used to calculate ventilation indices. Daily site indices were averaged to obtain a single area-wide average.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 12 The relationship between local ozone increment varies clearly with local ventilation in a non-linear manner. Stagnation is necessary but not sufficient for high local ozone production.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 13 HGB background ozone is not clearly correlated with HGB areawide average ventilation index. But the highest background ozone does seem to occur with low ventilation…

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 14 Ranked background ozone, MDA8 ozone, and ventilation index. Highest background ozone apparently associated with low ventilation. Is the low ventilation local or regional? Is the high background only local, or also regional? Examine regional ventilation, DFW background ozone.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 15 Regional ventilation index

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Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 19 In 2011, spring frontal passages are punctuated by stagnant periods that lead to high background and peak ozone. Summer has lower ventilation, but also lower background, especially for HGB. Transition to fall leads to longer stagnant periods, widespread ozone.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 20 In 2012, spring frontal passages are less frequent than Mid-summer has an extended period of low ventilation and high background, leading to high MDA8 O3. Transition to fall has fewer stagnant periods, lower ozone.

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 21 Monthly distribution of Galveston back trajectory clusters.

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Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 23 Highest concentrations linked to continental flow Intermediate concentrations linked to coastal flow Lowest concentrations linked to Gulf of Mexico flow

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 24 Seven clusters of 3-D Galveston back trajectories produced by SAS FASCLUS procedure. Cluster 1 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell Cluster 2 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell Cluster 3 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell Cluster 7 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell Cluster 6 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell Cluster 5 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell Cluster 4 Median Terminal Ozone Concentrations Min 15 Values per Cell

Findings Regionally, background ozone varies with ventilation, but locally, background ozone is only weakly related to ventilation. The local ozone increment has a strong, non-linear relationship to local stagnation. Stagnation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for high local ozone production. Local and regional ventilation vary together, suggesting that larger scale weather patterns cause both. DFW background is usually higher than HGB background, especially in mid-summer. High background ozone is associated with post-frontal stagnation (in agreement with Rappenglueck 2009; Lefer 2010; Haman 2014; Davis 1997). For these reasons, high ozone tends to occur in multiple eastern Texas cities simultaneously.

Findings On average, background ozone in DFW varies little throughout the summer; in HGB, background ozone reaches a minimum during mid-summer (mid-June to mid-August). Low HGB background ozone is due in part to transport from the Gulf of Mexico, which tends to occur in mid-summer in Houston. Higher HGB background ozone occurs when transport is continental, and when transport occurs only over a short distance.

Findings3 June-July-August are not the only important months for high ozone; annual and multi-year modeling exercises must consider a longer period when studying the “ozone season.”

Air Quality Division Background ozone MJE/JHS October 2014 Page 28 Contact information –(512) –(512)