This project will investigate the potential impacts of changing land use and land cover on ozone and particulate matter (PM) air quality in the United States. It will develop an integrated modeling system and quantify the contributing effects from anthropogenic land-use change and also changes in land cover driven by climate change. These changes are expected to affect air quality through various aspects including changes in the natural emissions of ozone and PM precursors and changes in the deposition of ozone and PM as well as their precursors. Some preliminary work has shown that these changes could have potentially large impacts on atmospheric chemistry and air quality.

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An FTP 'dropbox' has been set up to store uploaded data files. Use an FTP client that supports the sftp (secure ftp) protocol, such as FileZilla, to connect to ctm.geo.mtu.edu.

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1. Hickman, J.E., S. Wu, L.J. Mickley, M.T. Lerdau, Kudzu (Pueraria Montana) invasion doubles emissions of nitric oxide and increases ozone pollution, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), doi: 10.1073/ pnas.0912279107, 2010.
2. Yu, F., G. Luo, T. S. Bates, B. Anderson, A. Clarke, V. Kapustin, R. M. Yantosca, Y. Wang, and S. Wu, (2010), Spatial distributions of particle number concentrations in the global troposphere: Simulations, observations, and implications for nucleation mechanisms, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D17205, doi:10.1029/2009JD013473.

This research is funded by grant R834-28601 from the U.S. EPA STAR Program.