Air quality monitoring protocol - Denali National Park and Preserve

Ambient air quality monitoring is important in Denali, to document baseline conditions and to track long term trends. Denali National Park and Preserve is the only National Park in Alaska designated as class I under the Clean Air Act. Geographic Description: Specific coordinates in the Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Denali National Park and Preserve is located in the central Alaska Range, approximately 210 km southwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. Methodology: Denali currently participates in three nationwide air quality monitoring networks: National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE), National Park Service Gaseous Pollutant Monitoring Network (ozone monitoring). Air quality monitoring protocols have been written for each network, and approved by the respective network steering committees. Since there is no local control over methodology, the network manuals are the park's guiding documents. This is a compilation of network protocols.