Progress Report I.: Inter-RPO (NESCAUM) Project Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Tracking

FASTNET

February 2004

R. B. Husar, E. M. Robinson, K. Hoijarvi, CAPITA

T. Funk, S. Raffuse, STI

Submitted to

Gary Kleiman and Rich Poirot, NESCAUM

•The Inter-RPO FASNET Pilot Project is well under way•Live web-connection to a dozen relevant aerosol datasets have been established.•Analysts Consoles, allow browsing and some analysis of the various data set•The Manager Consoles are being formulated •The community interaction website is up.

•By April the FASNET system will be ready for the Apr-Sep aerosol event season•Steering Group and community input will guide the completion•Feb-Mar is key to Community formation by establishing and testing the connectivity

Pilot FASNET Project Tasks

The demonstration project includes the tasks:

1. Preparing candidate real-time data list and archiving/processing procedures

2. Preparing full documentation of three past events (2000-2003)

3. Real-time tracking and documentation for two current events (2004)

4. Preparing a long-term plan for FASTNET

This progress report covers tasks 1 and preparations for task 2, 3.

Candidate Datasets in the Catalog

• Data sets are made accessible to FASTNET through the services of DataFed.Net

• DATAFED is an evolving network for sharing of data and processing services

• DATAFED is supported by grants from EPA, NSF and NASA

Click on the images to view live web-programs

ASOS Weather Network:1200 Hourly Station Weather & Visibility (Truncated)

EPA AirNow Hourly Near Real-Time PM2.5 Data

Analysts Consoles

Analysts Consoles are a collection of views, each representing a different aspect of the aerosol-relevant system. AC Features:

• data from a variety of disparate providers is brought together

• the observation time and spatial subset (zoom rectangle) for each dataset is synchronized

• the user can customize the console’s data content and format

Click on the images to view live web-program

Web Applications Using DATAFED Services

Animator Contourer

Managers ConsolesNotifying the management stakeholders of large-scale aerosol events as they unfold

Packaging and summarizing information to AQ managers with links to analysts summaries and interpretations

FASTNET Community Website

Schedule and Project Management

• Nov.-April: Preparation of real-time datasets, software and overall system

• March-May: Analysis of three historical episodes

• May-August: Real-time tracking-analysis of three episodes

• Sept-Oct: Pilot study report; Detailed FASTNET plan

• The project is administered through NESCAUM (contract managers: Gary Kleiman & Rich Poirot) and coordinated by CAPITA along with STI. The FASTNET Steering Team for guidance, testing and evaluation is listed below.

• Melinda Hoskin (CENRAP)

• George Allen & Bill Gillespie (MANE-VU)

• Donna Kenski (MWRPO)

• Pat Brewer (VISTAS)

• Marc Pitchford & Tom Moore (WRAP)

• Jim Szykman & Fred Dimmick (EPA)

• Doreen Neil (NASA)

• Rick Artz (NOAA)