Air quality related values (AQRVs) for Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN) parks: Effects from ozone; visibility reducing particles; and atmospheric deposition of acids, nutrients and toxics
Sullivan TJ. 2016. Air quality related values (AQRVs) for Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN) parks: Effects from ozone; visibility reducing particles; and atmospheric deposition of acids, nutrients and toxics. Natural Resource Report. NPS/ROMN/NRR—2016/1183. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
This report describes the Air Quality Related Values (AQRVs) of the Rocky Mountain Network (ROMN). AQRVs are those resources sensitive to air quality and include streams, lakes, soils, vegetation, fish and wildlife, and visibility. The ROMN parks that are included in the NPS Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program, and discussed in this report, are Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO), Glacier National Park (GLAC), Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (GRKO), Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (GRSA), Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (LIBI), and Rocky Mountain National Park (ROMO). GLAC, GRSA, and ROMO are designated as Class I, giving them a heightened level of protection against harm caused by poor air quality under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Sullivan et al. (2011a, 2011b) and Kohut (2007) conducted risk assessments of acidification, eutrophication, and ozone (O3) of all of the ROMN parks; their results are described in this report. This report also describes air pollutant emissions and air quality, and their effects on AQRVs. The primary pollutants likely to affect AQRVs include nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) compounds (nitrate [NO3-], ammonium [NH4+], and sulfate [SO42-]); ground-level ozone (O3); haze-causing particles; and airborne toxics. Background for this section can be found in “Air Quality Related Values (AQRVs) in the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) National Parks: Status of Visibility Degradation, Ozone Effects on Vegetation, and the Effects on Natural Resources of Atmospheric Acid, Nutrient, and Toxics Deposition” (Sullivan 2016). File size: 3.8 MB
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Sullivan, Timothy
- Date of Issue
- 2016-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NRSS , ROMN
- Keywords
- Acidification, Air Quality Related Values, Airborne Toxics, AQRV, Critical loads, Deposition, Emissions, Nitrogen, Ozone, Sulfur, Visibility
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Air Quality | Ozone , Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Air Quality | Wet and Dry Deposition , Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Air Quality | Visibility and Particulate Matter , Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Air Quality | Air Contaminants