Reports available on this page are:
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BLANkET Technical Reports - extended analysis using BLANkET network and other data on smoke in Tasmania
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BLANkET Brief Reports - short reports similar to the full technical reports
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CASANZ conference papers - papers presented by the EPA Air Section at the biennial meeting of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ). [There may be minor differences between the versions here and the final papers available from CASANZ.]
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Other reports - miscellaneous other analyses
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BLANkET Technical Report
BLANkET Technical Report 04 - Sea-salt aerosols - May 2009 (PDF 2Mb)
BLANkET Technical Report 05 - Dust from the Simpson Desert, September 2009 (PDF 2Mb)
BLANkET Technical Report 06 - Bushfire smoke across northern Tasmania (PDF 1Mb)
BLANkET Technical Report 31 - Overview of the BLANkET smoke monitoring network, 2009-2015 (PDF 8Mb)
Archived Reports
BLANkET Technical Report 1 - General description of the BLANkET project, 2009
BLANkET Technical Report 2 - Winter smoke at Derby, July 2009
BLANkET Technical Report 3 - Winter smoke at Lilydale, May and June 2009
BLANkET Technical Report 7 - Smoke from a Huon burn measured at Howden and Hobart, April 2009
BLANkET Technical Report 8 - Smoke detected at St Helens BLANkET station, 9 July 2009
BLANkET Technical Report 9 - Smoke in northern Tasmania, 17 March 2010
BLANkET Technical Report 10 - Review of 2010 air quality data for Tasmania
BLANkET Technical Report 11 - Smoke in northern Tasmania, 20-22 October 2010
BLANkET Technical Report 12 - Smoke from a planned burn in north-central Tasmania, 19 November 2010
BLANkET Technical Report 13 - Smoke from a planned burn - middle Tamar Valley, 4 November 2010
BLANkET Technical Report 14 - Smoke at George Town, 6 December 2010
BLANkET Technical Report 15 - Smoke in the Channel region - Southern Tasmania, 7 March 2011
BLANkET Technical Report 16 - Smoke in Southern Tasmania, 15 March 2011
BLANkET Technical Report 17 - Smoke and katabatic winds at Burnie, April 2010, April 2011 & February 2012
BLANkET Technical Report 18 - An agricultural burn at Nile, north-central Tasmania, December 2011
BLANkET Technical Report 19 - Smoke in the Derwent and Tamar valleys, 28-29 March 2011
BLANkET Technical Report 20 - Planned burn smoke in the Huon Valley, 14 March 2012
BLANkET Technical Report 21 - Analysis of smoke in the Derwent Valley, 1-2 April 2012
BLANkET Technical Report 22 - Review of 'Burn Brighter 2012', and summary of smoke surveys in several Tasmanian towns, 2010-2012
BLANkET Technical Report 23 - Air quality and the January 2013 Tasmanian bushfires
BLANkET Technical Report 24 - Smoke from the Mt Direction fuel-reduction burn, 29-30 May 2013
BLANkET Technical Report 25 - Smoke from an agricultural burn-off near Campbell Town, 16 July 2013
BLANkET Technical Report 26 - Smoke in northwest Tasmania, 8 October and 12 November 2013
BLANkET Technical Report 27 - A review of 2013 BLANkET data, including the winter 2013 'Burn Brighter' program in Geeveston and Hadspen
BLANkET Technical Report 28 - PM2.5 levels at a residence in Invermay. Launceston, July 2014
BLANkET Technical Report 29 - Smoke in northern Tasmania from a west coast planned burn, 15 October 2014
BLANkET Technical Report 30 - Unusually–elevated coarse particles concentration across Tasmania, 3 Jan 2015
BLANkET Brief Reports
BLANkET Brief Report 22 - Smoke measurements during a fire training exercise at Spreyton, October 2015 (2Mb)
Archived Reports
BLANkET Brief Report 1 - Fingal 20 May 2009
BLANkET Brief Report 2 - Fingal 18 June 2009
BLANkET Brief Report 3 - Fingal 24 June 2009
BLANkET Brief Report 4 - St Helens 19 November 2009
BLANkET Brief Report 5 - Smoke in northern Tasmania, 17 March 2010 - an extended summary of BLANkET Technical Report 9
BLANkET Brief Report 6 - Bushfire smoke at Scottsdale - 17 February 2010
BLANkET brief report 7 - Smoke from a bushfire at Ansons Bay - north-east Tasmania - moving into the Tamar Valley - 23 January 2010
BLANkET Brief Report 8 - Smoke at Fingal 3 May 2010 - a possible source at 70km distance
BLANkET Brief Report 9 - Local smoke at Fingal 15- 16 June 2010
BLANkET Brief Report 10 - A small grassfire at Mowbray, Launceston, 30 December 2010
BLANkET Brief Report 11 - Car-based monitoring of a smoke plume from an agricultural burn in the northern midlands - 25 February 2011
BLANkET Brief Report 12 - Smoke from a forest industry burn - Moorina - north-east Tasmania - 28 April 2011
BLANkET Brief Report 13 - Smoke near St Peters Pass, 5 October 2011
BLANkET Brief Report 14 - Diesel engine exhaust at Gretna, January 2012
BLANkET Brief Report 15 - Grass fire at George Town, 28 January 2012
BLANkET Brief Report 16 - Smoke at Sheffield, 22 November 2010
BLANkET Brief Report 17 - Small burn-off at George Town, 3 May 2012
BLANkET Brief Report 18 - Waste burn-off at George Town, 12 October 2011
BLANkET Brief Report 19 - Small hazard reduction burn, Southern Tasmania, 2 November 2013
BLANkET Brief Report 20 - Optical haze in northwest Tasmania, November 2013
BLANkET Brief Report 21 - Chimney smoke over a residential boundary (1Mb)
CASANZ papers - papers presented by the EPA Air Section at the biennial CASANZ meetings
2019 meeting
Some examples of how a woodheater/woodburner can smoke out a neighbour, and why is it so hard to fix the problem? (3Mb)
Estimating Tasmanian winter-time population exposure to PM2.5 using a two-parameter, empirically-based method (739Kb)
Recent bushfire smoke intervals in Tasmania, with an emphasis on the 2019 January-February impacts (289Kb)
Some Tasmanian work on measuring the penetration of ambient smoke into buildings (2Mb)
2017 meeting
A case-study of smoke from a single woodheater - Claremont, Hobart (2Mb)
Spatial distribution of winter woodheater smoke in Launceston (8Mb)
Interannual meteorological influences on winter air quality (extended abstract) (227Kb)
Presented at previous meetings - Archived
CASANZ 2011 - BLANkET - The Base-line Air Network of EPA Tasmania - A real-time smoke monitoring network
CASANZ 2013 - Car-based surveys of winter smoke-concentrations in some Tasmanian Towns 2010-2012
CASANZ 2013 - Comparing Tasmanian PM10 and PM2.5 TEOM and low-volume air sampler data
CASANZ 2015 - babyBLANkET - A low-cost highly-portable real-time smoke-monitoring station based on the Dylos DC-1700 laser particle counter
CASANZ 2015 - In my backyard - Very-high wintertime smoke levels at a residence in Invermay Launceston arising from nearby woodheaters
CASANZ 2015 - The Tasmanian Burn Brighter this Winter woodheater educational intervention 2013
CASANZ 2015 - Spatial mapping of the Hazelwood smoke plume with Travel BLANkET
Other Reports
Tasmanian Air Monitoring Update, January 2013 (115Kb) - A description of changes to the EPA's air monitoring network
Archived Reports
Influence of wind direction on measured smoke levels at Ti Tree Bend Launceston, 2007-2009
A large convective cell over central Tasmania, 15 February 2010
Particle count measurements during and after a haze event - Southern Tasmania, 25-26 December 2010
Report on air quality monitoring during the Longford tyre depot fire, 15-17 February 2012