2004-09-29 status report on catt and fastnet
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Status Report on CATT and FASTNET R. Poirot, VT DEC & R. Husar, CAPITA, 9/29/04
CATT: Combined Aerosol Trajectory Tools
FASTNET: Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Tracking
Both are Inter-RPO Projects, Conducted by CAPITA
Managed for MANE-VU by:
MARAMA (Serpil Kayin, CATT) & NESCAUM (Gary Kleiman, FASTNET)
Status: CATT & FASTNET have been Eaten by DataFed.Net
Within DATAFED.NET, CATT & FASTNET
are 2 of many
“Projects”
which Share Many Common
“Datasets”
which are Archived & Accessible & can be Viewed, Compared,
Exported, Analyzed & Interpreted, using a
variety of Web-Based
“Applications”
Data Catalog(s) Provide Access to Many: Fast (rapidly available), Current (near-real-time, recently archived & continuing) and Slow (historical data Like IMPROVE Aerosol & ATAD trajectories)
Data Catalogs: Aerosol, Fire, Maps, Meteorology, Emissions, Images, Events
Data Viewer:
Open & View Any File in Catalog(s).
Many Files Include Time
Series, Linked to Map –
Point & Click.
Zoom Map or Time series, Change Size,
Symbols, Variables,
Add Layers, Export Data – Copy Paste.
Data Files Accessed & Archived Specifically for FASTNET. Note Varying Start dates (1988-2004), with Most Continuing.
VIEWS_CHEM (IMPROVE Aerosol) and ATAD Trajectories (NPS) are currently used in CATT Applications
Start with Kitty: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=Kitty
Kitty
DataFed.net Large Collection of Projects, Data, Tools. Where’s CATT “Start”?
Change Species or SiteF
ilter
ing
& D
ata
Exp
ort
Change Sites by
Point & Click
Kitty
Acadia SO4 > 15
ug/m3
1. Start with Kitty to Explore Any Combinations of IMPROVE & ATAD Traj. Data (any/all sites & years).
2. Export CSV file of Selected Data & Copy/Paste into CSV Table Editor and Save for Subsequent Analysis.
1. Change Traj Sort.
2. Plot in Kitty
2. Export file as CSV data.
3. Copy/Paste into File Editor,Save.
4. Open YourFile in TrajAggGrid…
Save(d) as: ALLpost99OCge10.csv
Select All Sites and Dates after 1/1/99 if :
Organic Carbon >= 10 ug/m3.
Fires in the West & Southeast (but not much in MANE-VU)
Save CSV file & open in Trajectory
Aggregator/Gridder,
Weight Traj. by OC Concentration (or not), Normalize (or
not) & Plot.
Fine Soil >7.5, post-1999, All Sites & All Months
Fine Soil > 7.5, All Years, All Sites, July-Only
Western & Asian Dust (Primarily Spring)
Eastern Sahara Dust (Primarily Summer)
All US sites, dv >=30
All US sites, SO4 >=15
Areas upwind of all sites for Highest dv = Highest SO4
1. From Kitty, http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=Kitty2. select All Locations & YourSpecies >= X (using “Q” button)3. Export CSV Data (“D” button) & Copy/Paste into CSV File Editor & Submitter:
http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/editfile.aspx4. Save as YourFileName.csv5. To Plot in Trajectory Aggregator & Gridder, substitute YourFileName.csv for
ALLDVge30.csv)http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=TrajAggGrid&csv_url
=ALLDVge30.csv&value_column=value&scale_max=0.004
All US sites, SO4 >=15
Kitty “How To”, for Review
CATT Future:
• Add Additional Ensemble Trajectory Metrics
• “Automatically” update as new Traj & Aerosol data are available (Kristi Gebhart has just updated ATADs for most recent IMPROVE)
• Add Additional Aerosol (STN) & Trajectory Data (Kristi is Willing to Crank ATADs for Entire STN Network – triple site density)!!
• Continued Support from MANE-VU, other RPOs(?) & other DataFed.Net Partners (NSF, NASA, EPA, etc.).
DataFed.Net
The infrastructure that provides the structured
data and tools
NSF & NASA
FASTNET DataLog
The discussion forum and miscellaneous
data catalog
Analyst Consoles:Near-Real-Time Data
Example: NE Sulfate Episode: 8/27/04 17:00UTC
Sulfate in the Northeast
Sahara Dust in the Gulf
Fires in the Southeast
Time Series Console: Southeast
Temporal Scales of Aerosol Events• A goal of the FASTNET project is to detect and document natural aerosol events in
the context of the overall PM pattern
• Inherently, aerosol events are spikes in the time series of monitoring but the definition and documentation of events has been highly subjective
• Temporal variation occurs at many scales from micro scale (minutes) to secular scale (decades)
• At each scale the variation is dominated different combination of the key processes: emission, transport, transformations and removal
• Natural aerosol events occur mostly at synoptic scale of 3-5 days
Temporal Signal Decomposition and
Event Detection
• First, the median and average is obtained over a region for each hour/day (thin blue line)
• Next, the data are temporally smoothed by a 30 day moving window (spatial median - red line; spatial mean – heavy blue line). These determine the seasonal pattern.
EUS Daily Average 50%-ile, 30 day 50%-ile smoothing
Deviation from %-ile
Event : Deviation > x*percentile
Average
Median
• Finally, the hourly/daily deviation from the the smooth median is used to determine the noise (blue) and event (red) components
Feb 19 2004 Episode(s) • Isolated high PM25 occurs over the Midwest, Northeast and Texas• Aerosol patches are evident in AIRNOWPM25, ASOS & Fbext maps• The absence of TOMS signal indicates the lack of smoke or dust at high elevation
• The NAAPS model shows high sulfate east of the Great Lakes, but no biomass smoke
• Possible event causes: nitrate in the Upper Midwest and Northeast, sulfate around the Great Lakes and dust over Texas
Jul 21-23 Episode• This intensive 3-day episode covers much of the Eastern US• The AIRNOW, ASOS and Visibility FBext are all elevated• Extremely high MODIS AOT and GASP AOT values cover the East Coast and Gulf Coast• The surface winds indicate stagnation over much of the East Coast
• NAAPS model predicts elevated sulfate throughout the Eastern US.
• Possible causes: sulfate episode
July 4, 2004 Aerosol Pulse
• The US-avg. AIRNOW PM25 shows a 3 hr. spike at midnight• In the (airport) ASOS the July 4 spike is conspicuously absent• Thus, the US spike is due to the urban sites affected by smoke
00:00
04:00
08:00
20:00
AIRNOW PM25
AIRNOW PM25
US Hourly Average
ASOS Bext
US Hourly Average
Pulse
No Pulse
Mystery Peak over the Great Lake & NE Regions
The 30-day smoothing average shows the seasonality by region
The Feb/Mar PM25 peak is evident for the Northeast, Great Lakes and Great Plains
This secondary peak is absent in the South and West
Jul-Aug sulfate peak
Feb-Mar mystery peak
Upper Midwest Peak Observed through AIRNOW PM25 surface and POLDER, MISR Satellite Data
JAN 97
FEB 97
MAR 97
Dauze et. al, 2001
JAN 04
FEB 04
MAR 04
JAN 04
FEB 04
MAR 04
JAN 04
FEB 04
MAR 04
Aerosol Event Catalog: Distributed Web pages
• Aerosol events appear any time and place and analyzed by many organizations.
• The event info. is encoded, cataloged and accessed through Event Catalog
• Each ‘event’ is given attributes: location and time of occurrence and aerosol type (dust, smoke, haze, other)
• This allows graphic browsing of event-related information on maps and calendars and linking the info source, e.g. TNRCC.
• Ideas on the Event Catalog (content, structure, interface, maintenance, etc) are welcome.
Browser
Links to Distributed Analyst/Data Web page
FASTNET Future:
• Link various “image data” (photos, satellite, etc.) to “Events”,
• Add New Data (& Datasets, like RAINS) & Continue Archival,
• Link New Fast to Old Slow (IMPROVE Aerosol & Traj.) Data,
• Compare Aerosol/haze indicators to Emissions & Model Data,
• Automated “Event Detection” & Analysis Methods!
• Continued Support from MANE-VU, other RPOs(?) & other DataFed.Net Partners (NSF, NASA, EPA, etc.).
Some Bookmarks on DataFed.Net: http://datafed.net/
Data Catalogs: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed_catalog.aspx
Data Viewer: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx
Data Consoles: http://www.datafed.net/consoles/realtime_consoles.asp?datetime=now-48&image_width=260&image_height=110
Kitty (Aerosol/Trajectory Browser): http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=Kitty
CSV File Editor & Submitter: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/editfile.aspx
Trajectory Aggregator (substitute: YourFileName.csv for ALLDVge30.csv)http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=TrajAggGrid&csv_url=ALLDVge30.csv&value_column=value&scale_max=0.005http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=TrajAgg&csv_url=ALLDVge30.csv&value_column=value&scale_max=0.005
CATT Incr. Probability: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/datafed.aspx?view=CATT_PERC_DIFF
CATT Discussion Pages: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/dvoy_book.aspx?path=HOME/Projects/CATT
FASTNET Discussion Pages: http://webapps.datafed.net/dvoy_services/dvoy_book.aspx?path=HOME/Projects/FASTNET
PM Event Detection – Time Series http://capita.wustl.edu/capita/capitareports/0409EventAnalysis/0409EventByTimeSeries.ppt
Eastern US Haze Events, for 2004 http://capita.wustl.edu/capita/capitareports/0409EventAnalysis/0409EventDetection04.ppt