ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE AND SPECIFIC HUMIDITY DEPENDENCE OF MOVES OUTPUT FOR MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS
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Abstract
Air pollution and climate change are some of the important consequences of modern
industrialization. In a large developed country like the United States of America, these
changes have a greater impact due to the country’s high energy demands. This project
focuses on air pollution caused by emissions released by combustion of fuels in automobile
engines. The mobile emissions inventory for the National Emissions Inventory (NEI)
is based on the estimates from MOtor Vehicle Emissions Simulator (MOVES), which is
a software program used to model automobile emissions. Analysis of in-situ roadside
monitor observations shows that emissions from automobile sources, especially CO and
NOx emissions are correlated with ambient temperature and humidity. In this research, I
compared the MOVES model output dependence on ambient temperature and specific humidity
to observations from an Air quality Monitoring Site which is located in Maryland
on Interstate-95 (I-95) and adjusted the model output to nearly match the observations.
The adjusted model was used to obtain emissions estimates of another month (here, Nov
- and these estimated ratios nearly matched with the observations.