Appendix C: Acronyms
AERMOD | American Meteorological Society/Environmental Protection Agency Regulatory Model |
AIS | Automatic Identification Systems |
BEIS | Biogenic Emissions Inventory System |
BOEM | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management |
CAA | Clean Air Act |
CAMx | Comprehensive Air Quality Model with Extensions |
CART | Classification And Regression Tree |
Cl | Chlorine |
CMAQ | Community Multi-scale Air Quality |
CO | carbon monoxide |
COARE | Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment |
EETs | emission exemption thresholds |
EPA | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
FB | fractional bias |
FE | fractional gross error |
FRM | federal reference method |
GOMR | Gulf of Mexico Region |
MEGAN | Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature |
MMIF | Mesoscale Model Interface |
NAAQS | National Ambient Air Quality Standards |
NAM | North American Model |
NEI | National Emissions Inventory |
NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
NMB | normalized mean bias |
NME | normalized mean error |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NO2 | nitrogen dioxide |
NOX | oxides of nitrogen |
OCD | Offshore and Coastal Dispersion |
OCS | outer continental shelf |
PBL | planetary boundary layer |
PM | particulate matter |
PM10 | particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters ≤ 10 µm |
PM2.5 | particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters ≤ 2.5 µm |
RCP | representative concentration pathway |
RMS | root mean square |
SER | Significant Emission Rate |
SIL | Significant Impact Level |
SO2 | sulfur dioxide |
VOC | volatile organic compounds |
WRF | Weather Research and Forecasting |
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