Title: Red Burn Code
Source: KOLO-ABC Reno
Aired: 12/19/11 5:00 pm
Keywords: desert research institute, air quality management
Affiliation: DRI, Division of Atmospheric Sciences
Contact(s): Dr. Marc Green
Description: The Washoe County Health District, Air Quality Management Division, has issued several unhealthy air quality notices calling for residents to stop wood-burning. DRI scientist Mark Green is working with the health department to better understand the readings, and isolate what other variables besides the inversion, may be causing a higher reading.