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Article: EPA & NOAA Join Forces to Enhance and Extend Air Quality Forecasts; Forecasting Model Will Assist State, Local Air Quality Forecasters
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- U.S. Newswire
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- May 6, 2003
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WASHINGTON, May 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- EPA and the Commerce
Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
marked World Asthma Day today by announcing a partnership to jointly
develop a forecasting tool which will enhance the ability to predict
air quality in our communities. The new model will create a
consistent national, numerical system of forecasting ozone and
particular matter. This tool will provide the Air Quality Index in
daily weather forecasts, and will report a more accurate warning of
the days in which outdoor activities could prove to be a health risk.
In a ceremony that took place today in Washington, D.C., EPA
Administrator Christie Whitman and Commerce ...