Visible Air Pollution, Air Quality, and Mortality in the Paso del Norte Airshed

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Visible Air Pollution, Air Quality, and
Mortality in the Paso del Norte Airshed N. J.
Parks, PhD Air Quality Research Group Center for
Environmental Resource Management and Civil
Engineering University of Texas at El Paso
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Variation of Visual Air Quality in the Paso del
Norte Airshed
Paper 982 Norris J. Parks1, Wen-Whai Li1,
Vinodkumar V. Borlepwar1, Robert W. Gray2 1
Department of Civil Engineering, 2 Center for
Environmental Resource Management University of
Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968
Stuart L. Dattner3, Victor Valenzuela4 3
Technical Analysis Division, Austin, Texas 78711,
4 Region VI, El Paso, Texas 79901 Texas Natural
Resource Conservation Commission
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Association of Particulate Matter and Other
Priority Air Pollutant Levels with Daily
Mortality after Windstorms, Still-Air
Inversions and Closely-Timed Combinations Norris
J. Parks, Joan G. Staniswalis, Julia
Bader, Yolanda Munoz
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When the magnitude of the frequent 8 PM evening
PM10 peak (annual average peak values range up to
40 ?g/m 3 ) rises above the average, mortality
(deaths/day) rises, after a 3-day lag, above
the seasonal average (Fig. 17) by about 0.8 per
10 ? g/m 3 of PM10 peak.
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Constant PM10 levels everyday or invariant
air-related mortality are not found.
PM10 concentrations associated with blowing dust
or sandstorms did not show a statistically
significant association with mortality.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The authors appreciate the
essential contributions of the following Robert
W. Gray, P.E., Information Technology Group,
Center for Environmental Resource Management,
University of Texas at El Paso for expeditious
management and archiving of numerous data files
Dr. James A. VanDerslice, University of Texas.
Houston, Health Science Center, El Paso Branch
(formerly)