Highlights from the Coordinating Research Council’s 2016 Air Quality Research Needs Workshop: Top 11 Research Needs

摘要

There are many opportunities for improving air quality modelingthrough research. This list of prioritized needs compiled fromthe 2016 Air Quality Research Needs Workshop can serve asa guide for agencies that are considering funding or conductingair quality modeling research. A total of 30 research need topicswere identified and discussed at the workshop, and they canbe found on the CRC website (http://crcao.org/workshops/2016%20A-98%20AQMRN%20Workshop/A-98index2016.html).. Universities and graduate students are encouragedto review the longer list to identify research topics forintegration into unsolicited research proposals and dissertationwork. By identifying this short list of research needs, theconference attendees hope to better focus resources towardimproving the models that are used in air quality planning efforts.In some cases, data do not exist and new methods areneeded to obtain the data. In other cases, data exist and newstrategies are needed to analyze the data. In any case, theproposed research projects would help evolve air qualitymodeling over the next five years.