{"content":[{"text":"The Emissions Inventory Database Application Component of the Air Quality \n Management Decision Support System for Beijing","bbox":{"left":0.121961,"top":0.043772,"width":0.7550460000000001,"height":0.044645}},{"text":"Jo Ellen Brandmeyer, Eric Solano, Robert A. Zerbonia \n RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC \n brandmeyer@rti.org","bbox":{"left":0.114118,"top":0.114348,"width":0.666183,"height":0.055061}},{"text":"27709-2194","bbox":{"left":0.79098,"top":0.131924,"width":0.09450999999999998,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"George Gao \n PA Consulting Group, Washington, DC","bbox":{"left":0.343529,"top":0.184045,"width":0.313431,"height":0.037788000000000016}},{"text":"Li Xin, Chen Tian, and Shi Aijun \n Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Beijing, China","bbox":{"left":0.232157,"top":0.23647,"width":0.535026,"height":0.03748400000000002}},{"text":"ABSTRACT","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.303879,"width":0.10676500000000001,"height":0.020984999999999976}},{"text":"An integrated air quality management decision support system (AQMDSS) is being constructed to \n help the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau (BMEPB) improve air quality for the 2008 \n Olympics and beyond. This region of China experiences poor air quality from multiple pollutants of \n concern, thus requiring a one-atmosphere approach to modeling. The AQMDSS will integrate tools for \n emissions inventory development and processing, industrial-scale air dispersion modeling, regional- \n scale photochemical modeling, and geospatial data analysis.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.336167,"width":0.81966,"height":0.10748400000000002}},{"text":"The emissions inventory database is the core of the AQMDSS. The database layout was \n constructed from a needs analysis of the models and processors that will use it. The National Emissions \n Inventory (NEI) Input Format version 3 (NIF3) was the starting point for the design. Some fields (e.g., \n country code) and tables (e.g., temporal factors, cross-reference tables) were added to support source \n models, emissions processors, geographic information system (GIS) analyses, and other models. \n Referential integrity and range checks were built into the database definition where appropriate.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.456167,"width":0.810922,"height":0.10718099999999997}},{"text":"A graphical user interface (GUI) allows users to enter and update data. Input forms reduce data \n entry errors by providing drop-down boxes and lookup capabilities for all codes. Also, construction of \n the forms supports the parent-child data relationships between tables in the database. The GUI supports \n a multilingual user interface. The initial version will be available in both English and Chinese. The \n application is also extensible, allowing more quality assurance (QA) tools to be easily added in the \n future.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.575864,"width":0.811556,"height":0.10718099999999997}},{"text":"INTRODUCTION","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.695697,"width":0.156503,"height":0.02098500000000003}},{"text":"An AQMDSS is being created to help officials in Beijing, China, understand the underlying \n causes of Beijing’s poor air quality and to simulate the effects of potential growth and control scenarios. \n Brandmeyer et al. (2004)1 describes the overall design of this system. The BMEPB required a single, \n integrated system where the data are stored in a central database that state-of-the-science models and \n tools share. There are many advantages to using such an integrated system, including data consistency \n among models. Also, by storing data in a relational database management system, the data can be more \n easily analyzed using Standard Query Language (SQL) statements. The AQMDSS can be used for \n creating and analyzing emission inventories and executing air quality models in China and other \n countries, including the United States, for years to come.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.727985,"width":0.8173400000000001,"height":0.15960600000000003}},{"text":"The initial focus of the project was to design the centralized database, obtain and integrate the \n various models, and create a user interface in Chinese. The preferred models and tools were to be \n 1","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.899803,"width":0.783085,"height":0.05566700000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}