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Air Quality Focus Group Discussion Summary
ESIP Winter Meeting
January 2005
Air Quality is one of 12 Applications of National Priority as defined by NASA and is one of 5 National Application Areas most frequently selected in Tom Yunck’s pre-meeting questionnaire
Air quality management involves multiple government agencies, businesses, and universities and provides an application area well suited for making use of ESIP’s infrastructure and resources.
About 20 participants attended the focus group
Air Quality Focus Group Discussion Topics
A) How are satellite data currently used in air quality research and management?
a) how is the data used
b) what satellite data are used
c) who are the data users
B) How to enhance the relevance of satellite data for air quality decision making?
a) what do EPA and other air quality organizations need
b) what can ESIP offer
AQ Management: Sensory-Motor System
AirQuality
AssessmentCompare to GoalsPlan ReductionsTrack Progress
Controls (Actions)
Monitoring(Sensing)
Set GoalsNAAQS
Assessment turns data into knowledge for decision making & actions through analysis (science & engineering)
Monitoring collects multi-sensory data from surface and satellite platforms and
NASA ESE data, tools and methods can benefit air quality (AQ) management through extended monitoring, data sharing tools and better science.
Set PolicyCAAA
Air Quality Data Use(EPA Ambient Air Monitoring Strategy, 2004)
AQ Management Activity Satellite Use (Part. Matter) ESIP
Informing the public Informative AQ Images
NAAQS (Nat. Amb AQ Std) development Criteria Document
NAAQS compliance
Tracking progress (trends)
Strategy dev. (SIPs), model evaluation Intercontinental transport
Science support (atmospheric processes) Natural dust & smoke, AQ Forecasting
Ecosystem assessment
Information
Information ‘Refinery’ Value Chain (Taylor, 1975)
Informing Knowledge
ActionProductive Knowledge
Data
Organizing Grouping
Classifying Formatting Displaying
AnalyzingSeparatingEvaluating Interpreting
Synthesizing
Judging Options
Quality Advantages
Disadvantages
Deciding Matching goals Compromising
Bargaining Deciding
e.g. DAAC e.g. Langley IDEA, FASTNET,
Forecast Modeling
e.g. WG Reports
e.g. RPO Manager
Info. Quality
Transform. Processes
Examples
ESIP – Facilitation States, EPA, International
Next Steps
• Form ESIP AQ Cluster to explore ideas & identify relevant ESIP resources• What types of air quality applications can ESIP support• Work up example applications• Prepare material for proposal
• Organize a meeting/workshop with EPA/NASA/NOAA• Understand their current efforts and information flow processes• Identify specific areas of interest• Develop a demo/testbed
Participants
NAME ORGANIZATIONStan Morain EDAC, Univ. of New MexicoRita Freuder University of New HampshireGregory Leptoukh NASA GSFCLawrence Friedl NASA HQDrew Pilant EPA-ORDHung Pham RITIPatricia Reiff Rice UniversityDave Skole Michigan State UniveristyVic Delnore NASA LangleyJohn Pickle Museum of ScienceTom Yunck JPL/GENESESRudy Husar Washington UniversitySteve Kempler NASA GSFCHoward Burrows AUSIMichelle Ferefee NASA-LaRCVince Ambrosia CA State Univ - Monterey Bay / NASA-AmesGary Foleu EPA-ORDDave Jones Storm CenterDick Wertz ESIPStefan Falke Washington University