Emerging Technologies for Air Quality

Paula Wamsley

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Inc.

NASA AQAST 7 Meeting, June 17-19, 2014, Harvard University

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Ball Aerospace Delivers One-of-a-Kind Systems for

Advancing Science & Science Applications

GMI Launch, Feb 27, 2014; Credit Bill Ingalls/NASA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=APkt5-mGutU

Credit for all images: NASA

GPM Microwave Imager

Deep Impact w/ Comet Tempel 1

HiRISE Digital

Terrain at Mars

Kepler – Planet Hunter Hubble Image – Whirlpool Galaxy

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Ball Aerospace Supports NASA Earth Science Remote

Sensing Needs

Sept. 17, 1979 Oct. 7, 1989 Oct. 9, 2006 Oct. 1, 2010

Time Series of the Antarctic Ozone Hole

CALIPSO LIDAR Under Development GMI Launch, Feb 27, 2014;

Credit Bill Ingalls/NASA

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Ball Aerospace Is Developing NASA’s First Geostationary

Sensor To Measure Intra-Day Ozone In The US

Analysis of GEOTASO Data by Caroline Nowlan

Column NO2 in Houston, TX; Fall 2013

TEMPO – Instrumentation for hourly

measurements of pollutants over

the continental US

Ball Aerospace is Developing TEMPO

for a 2017 Delivery

The ESTO Funded, Airborne

GEOTASO Sensor Serves As An

Airborne Demonstrator for TEMPO

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Strong Air Quality Focus in Current Programs

Ball’s GEOTASO instrument will fly in

coordination with the DISCOVER-AQ

and FRAPPE field campaigns

Liquid fuel leak

detection

technology is

being developed

for DOT/PHMSA

An air quality

measurement

system is being

developed for

NEON

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Opportunities To Support Air Quality, GEOCAPE, and The

Administration’s Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions

Main Sources of Human-Related

Methane Emissions

Agriculture 36%

Natural Gas Systems 23%

Landfills 18%

Coal Mining 10%

Petroleum Systems 6%

Wastewater Treatment 2%

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HAWC-OAWL

HSRL for Aerosols, Winds, and Clouds Using Optical

Autocovariance Wind Lidar

Technology Development For Future Air Quality Forecasting

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HAWC-OAWL Integrates Wind And Aerosol Measurements

In One System

HSRL (High Spectral Resolution Lidar) for Aerosols, Winds, and Clouds (HAWC) using Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (OAWL)

A NASA ESTO Instrument Incubator Program (IIP)

OAWL: Wind measurements ─ OAWL wind profiles: demonstrated in ground and aircraft flight tests

“Direct detection” receiver: Mach Zehnder interferometer

Laser: 4W each of 355nm (UV) and 532nm

─ Proposed full space-flight system at 532 nm: ATHENA-OAWL

HAWC: Adding concurrent HSRL (aerosol) retrievals to OAWL winds ─ Cloud/aerosol backscatter (), extinction (), and depolarization () …

─ … at 355 and 532 nm wavelengths (color ratios)

─ New transport data products Chemical Weather

─ Potential Aerosol + Winds mission combinations

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Thank You!