[R] Advice on starting to analyze smokestack emissions?

[Ebert,Timothy Aaron]

That depends on how exactly everything must match your primary question. The ecology group might be helpful for how biodiversity changes with proximity to a smokestack. They might have a better idea if the smokestack was from a coal fired powerplant or oil refinery. The modeling process would be similar, though the abundance of individual contaminants would be quite different. Just my thought for what it is worth.
Tim

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Subject: Re: [R] Advice on starting to analyze smokestack emissions?

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You might also try the R-Sig-ecology list, though I would agree that it's not clearly related. Still, air pollution effects...?

-- Bert

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 3:15 AM Kevin Zembower via R-help < r-help using r-project.org> wrote:

> Hello, all,
>
> [Originally sent to r-sig-geo list, with no response. Cross-posting
> here, in the hope of a wider audience. Anyone with any experience in
> this topic? Thanks.]
>
> I'm trying to get started analyzing the concentrations of smokestack
> emissions. I don't have any professional background or training for
> this; I'm just an old, retired guy who thinks playing with numbers is
> fun.
>
> A local funeral home in my neighborhood (less than 1200 ft from my
> home) is proposing to construct a crematorium for human remains. I
> have some experience with the tidycensus package and thought it might
> be interesting to construct a model for the changes in concentrations
> of the pollutants from the smokestack and, using recorded wind speeds
> and directions, see which US Census blocks would be affected.
>
> I have the US Government EPA SCREEN3 output on how concentration
> varies with distance from the smokestack.
> See
> https://www/.
> epa.gov%2Fscram%2Fair-quality-dispersion-modeling-screening-models%23s
> creen3&data=05%7C02%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu%7C3097c182143c47a6789c08dbfb2a7
> ed2%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C638379932467260671%7C
> Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h
> aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QgsYQ9w28caBmEGwJ9Kei2x0fSkH3
> 4v3%2BfAo37GdcYQ%3D&reserved=0 if curious. As a first task, I'd like
> to see if I can calculate similar results in R. I'm aware of the
> 'plume' steady-state Gaussian dispersion package
> (https://rdr/
> r.io%2Fgithub%2Fholstius%2Fplume%2Ff%2Finst%2Fdoc%2Fplume-intro.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu%7C3097c182143c47a6789c08dbfb2a7ed2%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C638379932467260671%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DN9oxiJnDFvvmY968G9t9Sagr8UfJ2ySZiGWV1%2F9AC8%3D&reserved=0), but am a little concerned that this package was last updated 11 years ago.
>
> Do you have any recommendations for me on how to get started analyzing
> this problem? Is 'plume' still the way to go? I'm aware that there are
> many atmospheric dispersion models from the US EPA, but I was hoping
> to keep my work within R, which I'm really enjoying using and learning
> about. Are SCREEN3 and 'plume' comparable? Is this the best R list to
> ask questions about this topic?
>
> Thanks for any advice or guidance you have for me.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
>
>
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