Service Agreements
Arizona Department of Environmental
Quality (ADEQ):
The
Intergovernmental Service Agreement in place with the Arizona
Department of Environmental Quality is considered by ADEQ as one
of the most successful and exemplary models in the U.S. where
academics, state agencies and stakeholders work together to spin
up fundamental work to develop and improve environmental
forecasting models and measurement systems. ADEQ expectations in
this regard are regulatory in nature while ASU is expected to
develop fundamental and applied knowledge to meet their needs.
First signed in 2002 as a five year agreement, the collaboration
between ASU and ADEQ has blossomed over the years and resulted in
a number of collaborative projects. The agreement was extended in
2006 until 06/30/2011. At the beginning of a given fiscal year,
ADEQ identifies some issues of critical importance for the
environmental protection mission of the State of Arizona and works
with researchers of the EFD Program at ASU to develop a work
scope. Each separate project is assigned to a PI from the EFD
program and is funded under a “daughter” account of the parent
Intergovernmental Service Agreement. Some of the on-going projects
include:
(i) Continued
support for the ASU/ADEQ modeling center and cyber infrastructure
development (Mr. Leonard Montenegro of ADEQ is assigned to the
modeling center on a part-time basis)
(ii)
Development of an on-line fire permitting system for
agricultural burning
(iii)
Tracking of PM Plumes using a Doppler Lidar
(iv) PM episodes in the US-Mexico border
Some Pertinent Publications:
Lee, S.M., Fernando, H.J.S. and Grossman-Clarke, S. Modeling of
Ozone Distribution in the State of Arizona in Support of 8-Hour
Non-Attainment Area Boundary Designations, Environmental
Modeling and Prediction, In Press.
Choi, Y-J., Hyde, P. and Fernando, H.J.S., “Modeling of episodic
particular matter events using a 3-D air quality model with fine
grid: Applications to a pair of cities in the U.S./Mexico border”
Atmospheric Environment, 40, 5181-5201 (2006)
Lee, S.M., Giori, W., Princevac, M. and Fernando, H.J.S. “A New
Turbulent Parameterization for the Nocturnal PBL Over Complex
Terrain,” Boundary Layer Meteorology, DOI:
10.1007/s10546-005-9018-4, 2006.
Lee, S.-M. and Fernando, H.J.S., “Evaluation of Mesoscale
Meteorological Models, MM5 and HOTMAC, using PAFEX-1 Data,”
Journal of Applied Meteorology,
43,
1133-1148, 2004.
