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NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University AQAST Leader www.aqast.org 6 th AQAST meeting - Rice University, January 15-17, 2014

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NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University AQAST Leader. www.aqast.org. 6 th AQAST meeting - Rice University, January 15-17, 2014. Pollution monitoring Exposure assessment AQ forecasting Source attribution Quantifying emissions External influences - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST)

Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard UniversityAQAST Leader

www.aqast.org

6th AQAST meeting - Rice University, January 15-17, 2014

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satellites

suborbital platforms

models

AQAST

Pollution monitoringExposure assessmentAQ forecastingSource attribution Quantifying emissionsExternal influencesAQ processesClimate interactions

AQAST

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AQAST members• Daniel Jacob (leader), Loretta Mickley (Harvard)• Tracey Holloway (deputy leader), Steve Ackerman (U. Wisconsin); Bart Sponseller (Wisconsin DNR)• Greg Carmichael (U. Iowa)• Dan Cohan (Rice U.)• Russ Dickerson (U. Maryland)• Bryan Duncan, Yasuko Yoshida, Melanie Follette-Cook (NASA/GSFC); Jennifer Olson (NASA/LaRC)• David Edwards (NCAR) • Arlene Fiore (Columbia Univ.); Meiyun Lin (Princeton)• Jack Fishman, Ben de Foy (Saint Louis U.)• Daven Henze, Jana Milford (U. Colorado)• Edward Hyer, Jeff Reid, Doug Westphal, Kim Richardson (NRL)• Pius Lee, Tianfeng Chai (NOAA/NESDIS)• Yang Liu, Matthew Strickland (Emory U.), Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)• Richard McNider, Arastoo Biazar (U. Alabama – Huntsville)• Brad Pierce (NOAA/NESDIS)• Ted Russell, Yongtao Hu, Talat Odman (Georgia Tech); Lorraine Remer (NASA/GSFC)• David Streets (Argonne)• Jim Szykman (EPA/ORD/NERL)• Anne Thompson, William Ryan, Suellen Haupt (Penn State U.)

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What makes AQAST unique?

All AQAST projects connect Earth Science and air quality management: Involve active partnerships with air quality managers, have deliverable

application outcomesExpand relationships through meetings, online tools, newsletters

AQAST has flexibility in how it allocates its resources Members adjust work plans to meet evolving air quality needs Multi-member “Tiger Teams” are organized each year to address newly

emerging, pressing problems requiring coordinated activity AQAST is self-organizing and can respond quickly to demands

Quick, collaborative, flexible, responsive to the needs of the AQ community www.aqast.org

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Scope of current AQAST projectsAQ agency• Local: RAQC, BAAQD, SJVAPCD, CDPHE• States: California, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin• Regional: LADCO, CenSARA, MARAMA• National: EPA, NOAA, NPS, BLM

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Earth Science resource

Satellites: MODIS, MISR, MOPITT, AIRS, OMI, TES, GOES, GOME-2

Suborbital: ARCTAS, DISCOVER-AQ, ozonesondes, PANDORA

Models: MOZART, CAM, AM-3, GEOS-Chem, RAQMS, STEM, GISS, CMIP

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Goals of this meeting• To share knowledge and experience in using Earth Science data and

tools for serving AQ management• To educate AQ managers in the use of Earth Science data and tools,

and educate Earth scientists on AQ needs• To hear about pressing AQ management issues, and determine how

AQAST can help – to-do list!• To discuss specific issues facing east Texas, including first results

from the DISCOVER-AQ aircraft campaign

5th AQAST meeting at U. Maryland (June 9-11, 2013)

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AQAST Highlight:Primer on using satellite data for air quality emission estimates

Year 2 Tiger Team activity involving nine AQAST PIs working with AQ managers

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AQAST Highlight: Ammonia emissions and nitrogen deposition in the US

2006 2050

Present and future (RCP)US emissions

US ammonia emission inventories Nitrogen deposition in US national parks

• Improved understanding of ammonia emissions in US by adjoint inversion of satellite and deposition data

• Demonstration of broad N exceedance problem in national parks, driven by ammonia in future

• Presently working with EPA and NPS in evaluation of secondary nitrogen oxides standard

AQAST PIs: Henze, Jacob 8

NOx

NH3

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AM3 (~2°x2°) GEOS-Chem (½°x⅔°)

Fourth-highest North American background MDA8 O3 in model surface layer between Mar 1 and Aug 31, 2006

ppb

AQAST Highlight:N American background ozone estimated from two different global models

(simulations with N. American anth. emissions set to zero)

• Large intermodel difference in background ozone over Intermountain West has important implications for AQ management strategies

Higher background:More exchange with surface?Larger stratospheric influence?

35 42 50 57 65

High AM3 bias in EUS;caution on N. Amer. Background here!

Excessive lightning NOx in summer

J. Oberman

AQAST PI: Fiore

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AQAST Products

• GLIMPSE (Henze): fast screening tool for radiative forcing implications of AQ management strategies

• Operational AQ ensemble forecasts for Maryland (Thompson)

• WHIPS (Holloway): user-friendly processing of satellite data

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1. Easily obtain useful data in familiar formatsCustom OMI NO2 “Level 3” products on any grid in netCDF with WHIPS (Holloway)Annual NO2 shapefiles - OMI & CMAQ on CMAQ grids (AQAST Tiger Team)Google Earth

2. Find easy-to-use guidance & example scripts for understanding OMI products and comparing to simulated troposphere & PBL concentrationsOne-stop user portal (Holloway & AQAST Tiger Team)OMI NO2 & SO2 guidance, field campaign example case studies (Spak & AQAST Tiger Team)

3. Obtain OMI observational operators for assimilation & emissions inversion in CMAQ •NO2 in GEOS-Chem CMAQ (Henze, Pye)

•SO2 in STEM CMAQ (Spak, Kim)

•O3 in STEM CMAQ (Huang, Carmichael, Kim)

AQAST progress toward an OMI AQ management toolkit:AQ managers can now…

OMI NO2 KML in SARP flight planning

AQAST PI: Carmichael

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Zifeng Lu, Progress in estimation of power plant emissions from satellite retrievalsAQAST 5 Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, June 4, 2013

ARSET/AQAST training for Bay Area Air Quality Management District:

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• September 10 - 12, 2013, Santa Clara, CA; hosted by BAAQMD

• 16 attendees from local AQ agencies, private sector, and academia

Course Taught by AQAST PI Yang Liu with Pawan Gupta

application of NASA /NOAA aerosol/smoke/fire satellite data for AQ monitoring

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AQAST communicationsand outreach

• Semiannual AQAST meetings• AQAST workshops and training sessions• AQAST representation at AQ meetings• Ozone garden network• 2012 AGU AQAST session and Town Hall • Website, quarterly newsletter• Media center, Twitter• AQ managers surveys

ARSET/AQAST at CMAS

St. Louis ozone garden

NO2 trends lenticular

AQAST deputy leader Tracey Holloway

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Environmental Manager: February 2014 AQAST special issue

2005

2011

NO2 Observed from Space • Monitoring PM2.5 for health: past, present, and future directions

(Liu et al. )

• Air quality forecasting (Hu et al.)

• Interactions between climate change and US air quality (Mickley et al.)

• Using satellite observations to measure power plant emissions and their trends (Streets et al.)

• Detecting and attributing episodic high background ozone events (Fiore et al.)

• Integrating satellite data into air quality management: experience from Colorado (Witman and Holloway)