These documents describe the SPECIATE database, EPA’s repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles for air pollution sources. “The development and uses of EPA’s SPECIATE database” describes the importance and uses of the SPECIATE database. Documentation is provided for the SPECIATE 4.5, the most recent version of SPECIATE, along with documentation for earlier versions of SPECIATE including SPECIATE 4.4, SPECIATE 4.3, SPECIATE 4.2, and SPECIATE 4.0.
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The Development and uses of EPAs SPECIATE database, as published in Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2010 (PDF)(11 pp, 825 K)
The development and uses of EPA's SPECIATE database.
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SPECIATE 4.5 (PDF)(100 pp, 2 MB)
Speciation Database Development Documentation, Final Report
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SPECIATE 4.4 (PDF)(290 pp, 4 MB,
February 19, 2014)
Speciation Database Development Documentation, Final Report
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SPECIATE 4.3 (PDF)(28 pp, 501 K)
Addendum to SPECIATE 4.2 Speciation Database Development Documentation
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SPECIATE 4.2 (PDF)(218 pp, 927 K,
June 2009)
Speciation Database Development Documentation
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SPECIATE 4.0 (PDF)(156 pp, 3 MB,
November 2006)
Database Development Documentation, Final Report, December 2006