ACDEP Atmospheric Chemistry and Deposition model
AIRMoN Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network
AQC Air Quality Committee
AQI Air Quality Index
ARNEWS Acid Rain National Early Warning System
AURAMS A Unified Regional Air Quality Modelling System
BACT Best Available Control Technology
BART Best Available Retrofit Technology
BAT Best Available Technology
BC British Columbia
BDPS Boundary Dam Power Station
CAPMoN Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network
CASTNet Clean Air Status and Trends Network
CCME Canadian Council of the Ministers of the Environment
CEM continuous emissions monitoring or monitors
CEPA Canadian Environmental Protection Act
CFS Canadian Forest Service
CHRONOS Canadian Hemispheric and Regional Ozone and NOx System
CL critical loads
CO carbon moNOxide
CO2 carbon dioxide
CMAQ Community Multiscale Air Quality model
CUTA Canadian Urban Transit Association
CWS Canada-Wide Standards
E-GRID Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated
Database
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
eq equivalence
FHM Forest Health Monitoring
FRM Federal Reference Method
g/bhp-hr grams per brake horsepower hour
g/mi grams per mile
IMPROVE Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments
km kilometres
kt kilotonnes
LRTAP Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Protocol
MACT maximum achievable control technology
mm millimetre
MERS Multi-pollutant Emission Reduction Strategies
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
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MRP Materials Research Program
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NADP/NTN National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network
NAMS National Air Monitoring Stations
NAPS National Air Pollution Surveillance
NARSTO North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
NCPTT National Center for the Preservation of Technology and Training
NEG/ECP New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
NERAQC Northeast Regional Air Quality Committee
NESCAUM Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
NH4 Ammonium
NO nitrogen oxide
NOx nitrogen oxides
NO2 nitrogen dioxide
NPRI National Pollutant Release Inventory
O3 Ozone
OTC Ozone Transport Commission
PEMA Pollutant Emission Management Area
PM particulate matter
PM10 particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns
PM2.5 particulate matter less than or equal to 2.5 microns
ppb parts per billion
ppm parts per million
PSD prevention of significant (air quality) deterioration
REMSAD Regional Modelling System for Aerosols and Deposition
RESEF Quebec Forest Intensive Monitoring Network
RPO Regional Planning Organization
SIP State Implementation Plan
SLAMS State and Local Air Monitoring Stations
SMB simple mass-balance
SO2 sulphur dioxide
SO42 sulphate ion
SPM special purpose monitors
SUV sport utility vehicle
TEOM Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance
USFS U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
VOC volatile organic compound
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