AQUIPT
The Air Quality Impacts Planning Tool (AQUIPT) is a web-based strategic planning tool for anticipating air quality impacts from localized emissions sources. It is designed to answer the question: "What are the likely impacts from this emissions source?" by combining dispersion modeling with climatological information. AQUIPT reduces the barriers to dispersion modeling by providing authorized users with statistical measures of impacts quickly and easily.
AQUIPT combines dispersion modeling with climate information to provide probabilistic impact estimates. While we cannot say what the impacts from a prescribed fire this September will be, we can say what the impacts would have been if the fire had happened last September or the one before, etc. AQUIPT can model the daily impacts of an emission source over a range of days and years (AQUIPT currently has 27 years of data from 1979 through 2005) then combines the results into a probabilistic impact map for estimating future impacts.
