Hello, all, [Originally sent to r-sig-geo list, with no response. Cross-posting here, in the hope of a wider audience. Anyone with any experience in this topic? Thanks.]
I'm trying to get started analyzing the concentrations of smokestack emissions. I don't have any professional background or training for this; I'm just an old, retired guy who thinks playing with numbers is fun. A local funeral home in my neighborhood (less than 1200 ft from my home) is proposing to construct a crematorium for human remains. I have some experience with the tidycensus package and thought it might be interesting to construct a model for the changes in concentrations of the pollutants from the smokestack and, using recorded wind speeds and directions, see which US Census blocks would be affected. I have the US Government EPA SCREEN3 output on how concentration varies with distance from the smokestack. See https://www.epa.gov/scram/air-quality-dispersion-modeling-screening-models#screen3 if curious. As a first task, I'd like to see if I can calculate similar results in R. I'm aware of the 'plume' steady-state Gaussian dispersion package (https://rdrr.io/github/holstius/plume/f/inst/doc/plume-intro.pdf), but am a little concerned that this package was last updated 11 years ago. Do you have any recommendations for me on how to get started analyzing this problem? Is 'plume' still the way to go? I'm aware that there are many atmospheric dispersion models from the US EPA, but I was hoping to keep my work within R, which I'm really enjoying using and learning about. Are SCREEN3 and 'plume' comparable? Is this the best R list to ask questions about this topic? Thanks for any advice or guidance you have for me. -Kevin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
