2010 Progress Report to UIC:

GEOSS Air Quality Community of Practice

(AQ CoP)  

Rudolf Husar (Point of Contact, rhusar@wustl.edu)Washington University in St. Louis 

16th GEOSS User Interface Committee Meeting

Oslow , September 1, 2010

Air quality community spans efforts

• Monitor the atmosphere (surface, satellite and aerial systems),

• Model future atmospheric behavior and air quality conditions,

• Measure and estimate emissions of pollution and pollution forming gases and particles,

• Combine those information with socio-economic data for decision making analyses.

Informing the Public

Enforcing Standards

Hemispheric Transport

Real-time Service

Regulatory Analysis

Policy Assessment

Atmospheric Composition

Science & Education

Air Quality & Health Applications

2010 CoP Activities using the GEO Process

Meetings, Coordination:

AQ Community Presentation, IGARSS, July, Honolulu, HI Meeting AQ Community Infrastructure, ESIP, July, Knoxville, TN

Coordinated Participation in the GEOSS AIP-III

Monthly TeleconferencesInteroperability Virtual Workshops – Data Access, Metadata, Projects

Initial development of collaborative website for AQ CoP

Users

Data Providers

GEOSSCommon

Infrastructure

Air Quality Community Catalog

General search and use of GEOSS data and services

AQ-specific search and use of GEOSS data and services

Air Quality Community Infrastructure

SEDACDataFed

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NGCESA

Data web service metadata registrations

AIP-2 Workspace: https://sites.google.com/site/geosspilot2/air-quality-and-health-working-group5

GEOSSCommon

InfrastructureGEOSSRegistry

GEOSSClearing-house

Example use of the GEOSS Common InfrastructureGUI Finder of AQ Data in the GEOSS Clearinghouse

Search for AQ data

Return AQ metadata

filtered AQ metadata available to other applications through RSS, atom, etc.

http://webapps.datafed.net/AQ_uFIND.aspx6

URR Placeholder Slide

Pollutants: WHO Guidelines Monitoring: AQ Stations/Million person

Framework: Science-based Execution:

• Contract to Analysts

• Contributions/guidance by International Advisory Group

• Recommended key role for CoPs in future User Requirement assessments

Column Observations

For

Emissions, Transport

Interoperability Efforts• GALEON• ESIP• GEOSS AIP• CyAir• HTAP/AMEN Network

Portals / Catalogs

NASA Programs/Projects

EPA Programs/Projects

NOAA Programs/Projects

• Air Quality Forecasting • NESDIS• NGDC • Hazard Mapping System• IDEA and IDEA-I

• WRAP • EDAC • LAITS• Giovanni• 3D-AQS• RS for BlueskyRAINS • Aura in AQ Forecasting• VIEWS/TSS • SAMITS • Sensor Web Architecture & Demo (Mandl)• DAACS

• AMI• AirNOW• AQS• OAQPS• HTAP • Remote Sensing Gateway• Environmental Science Connector

• DataFed • Unidata • Giovanni• LAITS• RSG• CIERA/NEISGEI• VIEWS • RSIG

Forest Service Programs/Projects• Bluesky

The Air Quality Web Landscape (not comprehensive – from a US perspective)

Mediators

• GEO Portals• Earth Observation Portal (GEO)• Geospatial One Stop• Environmental Science Connector (EPA)• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)• ECHO (NASA)• LEAD (NSF)• AC Portal (CEOS/WGISS)

International• GMES• MACC• CEOS ACC

State• Aura in AQ Forecasting • RPOs• Vermont

AQ CoP Goal:

Support the Development of a

AQ Community

GEO Process

Functioning AQ System of Systems by 2015

Use of AQ Observations

Tools & Methods that Work with Distribute Data

Sharing Practical Knowledge Useful for Decision Making

AQ Community of Practice AQ Community of Practice

By Connecting and Enabling

AQ CoP Challenges

• Broader Participation by Non- US members– More Support to Early Adaptors

• More AQ Data-As-Service – Incentives for data providers and mediators

• Acceptance by the AQ User Community– Developing Trust by the AQ Managers & Scientists

Air quality: Many Observations, Many Applications

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The CoP aims to

connect and enable air quality

data providers

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data users

tobenefit society

using the GEO Process and GEOSS

Infrastructure

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Users

GEOSS Common

Infrastructure

Air Quality Community

Catalog

2009 AQ CoP and the GEOSS Infrastructure

SEDACDataFed

Giovanni

EDAC

NGC ESA

100+ data web service metadata registrations

AIP-2 Workspace: https://sites.google.com/site/geosspilot2/air-quality-and-health-working-group

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AQ Community Data Finder

AQ User Apps

GEO Portsals

AQ CoP Contributions to GEOSS GCI through AIP II:

Air quality Community Catalog AQ Community Data Finder

Developed Discovery Metadata for Air Quality

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Area Plot Time Series Model Output

Profile Cross-Section Correlations Column Densities

CALIOP CALIPSO

CloudSat

MODIS Terra

SeaWiFS

TRMM

HALOE UARS

TOMS EP, N7

Data InputsData Inputs

MLS Aura

OMI Aura

AMSR-E Aqua

MISR Terra

MODIS Aqua

AIRS Aqua

MERRA Models

http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni Slide provided by G. Leptoukh

15Hemispheric Transport Application: HTAP

Project

SOA for Data Access & Processing

Mediator for 100+ AQ Datasets

Includes Tools for Analysis

Applied to EPA EE Analysis

Supported by NSF, NASA, EPA

Design ConceptIEEE Systems Journal, 2008

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Slide provided by R. Husarhttp://datafedwiki.wustl.edu/

17AQ Regulatory Application: Exceptional Events

Atmospheric Composition Portal

Objectives

• Provide access, tools, and contextual guidance to scientists and value-

• Foster interoperability and application of atmospheric composition data, information and services worldwide

• Start with DLR and NASA, work with partners in CEOS and the broader AC community in advancing the AC Portal

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GEO Task AR-09-02b

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Data AccessGateways

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Processing/AnalysisTools

GEOSS

User Contributed ContentUsers

Contextualmetadata

Slide By S. Falke

19Atmospheric Composition Portal: ACC Project