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Atmospheric Lidar Group’s Smog Blog on Maryland Morning

Maryland Morning‘s Sheila Kast spoke with Tad Aburn of the Maryland Department of the Environment for a segment entitled “Heat and Air Quality” on July 20th.

On the program’s web page is a link to UMBC’s U.S. Air Quality: The Smog Blog, run by the university’s Atmospheric Lidar Group and which serves as “a daily diary of air quality in the U.S. prepared using information from satellites, ground-based measurements, and models,” according to the website.

That diary has been important in compiling data for Maryland to determine the effect of pollution and other atmospheric elements on Maryland not only from its own contributions, but contributions from other states as well, with Aburn concluding to Kast that “we clearly need help in reducing the pollution that floats in from upland areas [outside of Maryland].”