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Page 1: DRAFT AQAST Tiger Team Proposal - Harvard Universityacmg.seas.harvard.edu/aqast/tt_year4/AQM_Tools_TT4.pdfAQAST Year 4 Tiger Team Proposal . Web-Enabled Tools for Air Quality Management

AQAST Year 4 Tiger Team Proposal Web-Enabled Tools for Air Quality Management Decision Support

Performance period: 10/1/2014-9/30/2015

Request for Continuation of Year 3 Project Lead PIs: Jim Szykman and Scott Spak Other AQAST Members: Greg Carmichael, Daven Henze, Dick McNider, Brad Pierce AQ management contacts: Terry Keating, Susan Anenberg (USEPA OAR OAQPS), Rohit Mathur (USEPA ORD), Chris Misenis, Sharon Phillips (USEPA AQMD), David Lighthall (San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District), Matthew Johnson (IA DNR) Problems to be solved: Effective air quality management requires AQ management organizations to acquire, analyze, and develop useful data products and policy relevant information from complex sets of data. Satellite data (physical and atmospheric composition) and numerical model output are among the most complex data sets to analyze and present in a user-ready and policy-relevant manner. In addition, efforts to translate data for increased and more effective use by AQ management agencies are often done as “one-off” analyses and not developed for use by the wider AQ community. By employing the Air Quality Cyberinfrastructure Best Practices developed under the EPA-funded CyAir Project (http://cyair.net/), and demonstrated through the EPA Remote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG3D – http://www.epa.gov/rsig/), we propose the extension of existing tools and creation of new interoperable systems to support delivery and presentation of AQAST and NASA data products in a user-ready and policy-relevant manner. AQ responsiveness: This proposal addresses requests from AQ managers in support of international, national, state and local AQ management activities. Survey responses from a Year 1 Tiger Team project, Year 3 pre-proposals, and ARSET participants have overwhelmingly requested products for using satellite retrievals of atmospheric composition in model evaluation and regulatory applications; specifically, by “presenting the data in a manner that is policy-relevant” and “creating targeted, processed and user-friendly datasets…that will help AQ agencies and the private sector meet their regulatory, monitoring, and permitting requirements” (Duncan and Prados, 2012). AQAST investigators have received continued requests for these products at NASA Applied Remote SEnsing Training (ARSET) workshops and webinars, and from Valley Air and US EPA AQMD. Requests for RSIG integration of NASA retrievals of cloud and surface properties to support modeling have come from US EPA ORD and several RPO consortia. US EPA OAQPS personnel have requested web-based interfaces for visualizing the effects of emissions changes in multi-scale source-receptor modeling for hemispheric transport and in global adjoint simulations of short-lived radiative forcing and their impacts for the UNEP Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).

Project description: Extending Year-3 accomplishments, this TT effort focuses on the continued expansion of interoperable web-based infrastructure to provides added value from NASA satellite data for numerical model evaluation, routine regulatory applications, and constraints on emission fields, and presents both model results and satellite data in a user-ready and policy-relevant manner. A major component of this TT effort leverages global and regional model simulations conducted in support of the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air

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Pollution (TF HTAP), other efforts in which AQAST members are engaged, and EPA-funded development of the RSIG system.

To date, Year 3 efforts have yielded a new web-based platform populated with satellite datasets and new applications for NASA remote sensing products:

1) Inclusion of a 2-hour hands-on RSIG module in ARSET sessions, first implemented in a September 2014 workshop at US EPA in Research Triangle Park, NC. (Szykman)

2) Development and beta release of the RSIG3D application, supporting 3D visualization of vertical features in modeled datasets and in satellite retrievals at the swath level. (Szykman)

3) Addition of quality-controlled legacy level 1 and level 2 satellite products into RSIG3D (OMI NO2, OMI O3, TES NH3, TES CO) to meet requests from AQ managers. (Spak-Szykman)

4) Incorporation of satellite-measurement model evaluation methods developed in support of TF HTAP into the RSIG3D User Application. (Henze-Pierce-Szykman)

5) UAH began work on applying EPA’s Spatial Allocator for subsetting and regridding GOES data for linkage of the UAH GOES archive to the RSIG server. The Spatial Allocator tool is being put under script control for web service to read model input files and regrid local files for MM5, WRF, CMAQ and CAMx with products to be delivered through RSIG. (McNider-Szykman) 6) An initial TF HTAP instance of interoperable web-based decision support feature in RSIG3D to translate response surfaces from source-receptor relationships and model sensitivity simulations into policy-relevant information, supporting user-provided source-receptor relationships from (adjoint or forward) sensitivity calculations. (Carmichael-Spak-Henze-Szykman)

We propose extension of this effort to support new satellite missions launched between 2014 and 2016, enhanced support for policy-relevant retrievals and assimilated datasets, and incorporation of feedback from AQM partner beta testing into an improved interoperable web tool. Support for new platforms and retrievals, including missions recently launched on the International Space Station, is especially vital for providing continuous coverage to applied user communities. Planned Year 4 extensions include:

7) Inclusion of the reanalysis product developed by the AQAST Reanalysis Tiger Team as a default model layer (Carmichael-Pierce-Szykman)

8) Subsetter server support for MOPITT CO and initial prototyping of winds and aerosol products from ISS RapidScat and Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) missions. Initiate discussion with ESA for new trace gas products from Sentinel-5 Precursor (TROPOMI). (Szykman-McNider-Pierce)

9) Beta-testing by partner agencies and volunteers from the user community, with feedback from real-time usage statistics and quarterly surveys incorporated into an enhanced user application and reported in a peer-reviewed publication (Spak-Szykman)

10) A scalable, interoperable web-based decision support feature in RSIG3D to translate response surfaces from source-receptor relationships and model sensitivity simulations into

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policy-relevant information, including extension to health and climate impacts. Two initial applications will be populated with simulations from the TF HTAP repository and GEOS-Chem adjoint calculations in support of CCAC. Implementation of online sensitivity features will be guided by feedback from AQ management partners and demonstrations at AQAST 8. (Carmichael-Spak-Henze-Szykman)

The end result of this TT effort will be the existence of several interoperable web-based Air Quality Decision Support Tools to support continued delivery and use of AQAST and NASA data products within the air quality management community.

Deliverables: • Deliverable 1: Integration of RSIG3D in NASA ARSET programming

Delivery date: 09/15/14

• Deliverable 2: Preliminary demonstrations to AQ management partners and AQAST team, including HTAP instance Delivery date: 12/02/14 (at AQAST 8 meeting)

• Deliverable 3: UAH-RSIG server scripts for GOES & MODIS products Delivery date: 03/30/15

• Deliverable 4: Initial Satellite-Model evaluation tools in RSIG3D Application Delivery date: 4/30/15

• Deliverable 5: Interoperable decision support tool with HTAP and CCAC instances Delivery date: 4/30/15

− Proposed Extensions −

• Deliverable 6: AQAST 2011 reanalysis incorporated as a default RSIG model layer Delivery date: 7/01/15

• Deliverable 7: subsetter support for MOPITT, prototype ISS-RapidScat and ISS-CATS, and requested quality-controlled legacy level 1 and level 2 satellite products Delivery date: 8/01/15

• Deliverable 8: A publication on "What do air quality managers need to apply satellite data to regulatory activities?" Delivery date: 9/30/15

• Deliverable 9: A new RSIG3D release incorporating results from a nine month beta phase Delivery date: 9/30/15

Expected AQ management outcome: 1. Improved access and utility of NASA satellite retrievals in operational use in U.S. AQ

management in trends analysis, model evaluation, routine regulatory applications (e.g. monitoring siting, exceptional event identification), and emissions inventory development and evaluation. This project will minimize technical barriers and time and effort required in intermediate data processing, and will consolidate access within one user environment.

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2. A new user-friendly paradigm for response surface visualization and impacts assessment will support policy analysis and communication to policymakers and the public, following initial demonstration applications to TF HTAP and CCAC.

3. A common infrastructure for “productizing” future AQ management requests for satellite and model datasets and tools from AQAST.

Special budget considerations: none References: Duncan, B.N., and A.I. Prados (2012). Recommendations for AQAST Activities: Potential Tiger Team Proposal Ideas. Air Quality Applied Science Team Interim Tiger Team Report.