These are questions/comments and answers about Base02 emissions:

Q/C: There are what appears to be obvious omissions, such as no NH3
     data for the states in the eastern US.  Other maps show missing
     data for MW states

A:  The NH3 emissions for the eastern states (MANE-VU and VISTAS) were
    processed with the area sources.  If you look at the comments (on the 
    web page) for the NH3 "diurnal time series" it says that it includes
    CENRAP, MW, and WRAP.   As for the MW, they do not have road dust emissions.

Q/C: Looking at the two graphs below it appears that fire PMFINE production is 
   occurring at roughly the same rate for both a winter and a summertime condition.
   And, the highest production is in the evening.  If that is the case,
   something needs to be corrected.  I wouldn't expect the same level of
   fire activity in the two periods or the production to be highest at
   night.  Like I said, though, maybe I'm not interpreting this correctly
   or understand it, but I wouldn't expect to have fire emissions being the
   same or at the same magnitude in the winter as in the summer.
 
 http://pah.cert.ucr.edu/aqm/308/QA_base02a36.plot/allf/plots/domain_hourly_total.plots/nwf/PMFINE/PMFINE.2002001.png
 http://pah.cert.ucr.edu/aqm/308/QA_base02a36.plot/allf/plots/domain_hourly_total.plots/nwf/PMFINE/PMFINE.2002200.png

A: The time-series plots that were asking about are showing NON-WRAP fire
   emissions only; there are separate plots for the WRAP fire emissions. These
   time-series show VISTAS and CENRAP RPO emissions only. These RPO's provided
   explicit fire data primarily for ag and rx fires; their wildfire EI's are
   contained in their stationary area inventories. For these point source
   fires, we used daily emissions values with a single diurnal profile.  So
   even though the emissions magnitudes will change day-to-day, the diurnal
   pattern will always be similar.

   Here are the answers to your questions:

   Question #1: Looking at the two graphs below it appears that fire PMFINE
   production is occurring at roughly the same rate for both a winter and a
   summertime condition.

   A better plot to look at for the seasonal trends is the episode, rather than
   hourly time series. 

   http://pah.cert.ucr.edu/aqm/308/QA_base02a36.plot/allf/plots/domain_daily_total.plots/nwf/PMFINE/nwf_PMFINE.png

   This plot shows that the two days that you picked, 2002001 and 2002200,
   actually do have very similar emissions magnitudes, 2002200 may actually be
   a bit lower. For these non-WRAP fire emissions most of the activity is
   happening in the spring, due to the ag and rx burns. Not much activity is
   happening in the summer at all, which is confusing when you are used to
   thinking about wildfire activity in the West. 

   As a contrast look at the episode time-series for the WRAP fires:

   http://pah.cert.ucr.edu/aqm/308/QA_base02a36.plot/allf/plots/domain_daily_total.plots/awf/PMFINE/awf_PMFINE.png

   Almost all of the activity is happening in the summer.  This plot also
   captures the ag and rx burns in the other seasons, but they are greatly
   overshadowed by the huge summer wildfire signal.

   Question #2:  ...the highest [fire] production is in the evening.

   The plots are in GMT, so for the RPO's covered by the non-WRAP time-series
   you need to shift backward 4-6 hours in the winter and 5-7 hours in the
   summer, depending on the RPO.  For the WRAP plots it's generally a 7 or 8
   hour backward shift for winter and summer, respectively. Once you make this
   adjustment you'll see that the fires are peaking in the mid to late afternoon.