Science
The study will examine the effects of air pollution on regional air quality, the interaction of gases, aerosols and cloud processing with radiation fields (i.e., climate effects), and the long-range transport and transformation of pollutants both into the New England region and out to the North Atlantic Ocean to Europe. A significant part of the study will involve the use of computer models for predicting and assessing long-range (e.g., hemispheric) transport of material and for forecasting regional air quality (e.g., ozone) in much the same way that numerical models forecast weather. The NEAQS-ITCT 2004 mission will be conducted in concert with studies sponsored by other U.S. as well as Canadian and European organizations and thus will be international in scope.
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