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2011 Progress Report to UIC: GEOSS Air Quality Community of Practice (AQ CoP
1. 2011 Progress Report to UIC:
GEOSS Air Quality Community of Practice
(AQ CoP)
Rudolf Husar (Point of Contact, rhusar@wustl.edu)
Washington University in St. Louis
18th GEOSS User Interface Committee Meeting
Sydney, April 8, 2011
3. Air Quality & Health Applications
‘Integrating Initiatives’
Not necessarily ‘under GEO’
HTAP, MACC, ACP,
CyAir…
Both Members and Beneficiaries
of AQ CoP
4.
5. AQ Data Server Software
Problem:
AQ data services are few and
not interoperable
• Supported by specific projects, HTAP, MACC, EE
• Co-developed at WashU, FZ Juelich, Open Source
• Implemented at servers:
– FZ Juelich, Germany (Global AQ model forecasts) Next Problem:
– NILU, Norway (EMEP Monitoring Obs)
– NGC Corp., US (AQ Emissions data) Interoperable servers are
– VIEWS/CIRA, US (Aerosol Chemistry, Satellite)
emerging but there are few
– DataFed, US (Tens of AQ datasets)
clients
Common Data Access Standard, Conventions and Metadata
Interoperability tested through client software
6. User-Required Obs. Models
Developed Five-Step
Methodology for User Req. Registry
1: State the SB Sub-Area: e.g. Manage Air Quality
2: Define Major Workflow Steps of the SBA User-Required
3: Name the Value-Adding Activities
4: Identify Participants for Each Activity (‘Users’) Observations
5: Determine the Participant’s EO Needs & Models
Project supported by EPA
AQ CoP guided and helped populating AQ URR!
Similar Concept
US-09-01a
Nine-Step Method for Priority Eos
1: Identify Analyst and Advisory Group for the SBA
Output
2: Determine scope of topics within the SBA
3: Identify docs on obs. priorities for the SBA
4: Develop analytic methods and priority criteria
5: Analyze docs for priority EO needs
6: Combine the info. and develop a prelim. report
7: Gather feedback on the preliminary report
8: Perform any additional analysis
9: Complete the report on Earth obs. for the SBA
7. Matching Offerings and Needs
AQ Community Catalog – Extracted from GCI
Data in GCI
AQ Requirements – Extracted from GEO URR
Data in URR
8. Activities – Continued in 2011:
Focus: Expanding, Firming AQ Data Network
Projects:
HTAP, MACC, EE, …Network - continue
Atmospheric Composition Portal (ACP)
AIP 4:
Coordinated Participation in the GEOSS AIP-IV
Populate GCI with US-09-01a CORE data
Community Interaction
Telecons, GEO AQ CoP website needs work!
AQ CoP Data Networking workshop in Croatia, Aug 2011
10. Health & Environment
CoP formed in 2009
Air Quality CoP formed in 2010,
Fucus on AQ Data Networking
Hinweis der Redaktion
The vision is to have these data available through an interoperability framework that allows them to be used via various subsets and combinations to support specific research and decision applications There are numerous Earth Observations that are available and in principle useful for air quality applications such as informing the public and enforcing AQ standards. However, connecting a user to the right observations or models is accompanied by an array of hurdles. The GEOSS Common Infrastructure allows the reuse of observations and models for multiple purposes Even in the narrow application of Wildfire smoke, observations and models can be reused.
The vision is to have these data available through an interoperability framework that allows them to be used via various subsets and combinations to support specific research and decision applications There are numerous Earth Observations that are available and in principle useful for air quality applications such as informing the public and enforcing AQ standards. However, connecting a user to the right observations or models is accompanied by an array of hurdles. The GEOSS Common Infrastructure allows the reuse of observations and models for multiple purposes Even in the narrow application of Wildfire smoke, observations and models can be reused.
