Welcome to the 10th Semiannual Meeting
of the NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team!
EPA RTP, January 5-7, 2016
AQAST4
Dec 2012
CARB
AQAST1
May 2011
NCAR
AQAST3
Jun 2012
U. Wisconsin
AQAST9
Jun 2015
Saint Louis U.
AQAST6
Jan 2014
Rice
www.aqast.org
AQAST7
Jun 2014
Harvard
AQAST5
Jun 2013
U. Maryland
AQAST 2&10
Nov 2011, Jan 2016
AQAST8
RTP
Dec 2014
Georgia Tech
Meeting goals:
1. Exchange information on Earth science applications for
air quality management;
2. Discuss emerging air quality management needs
and how Earth Science can help to address them.
Quick overview of agenda
Day 1: Tuesday January 5
- NASA and EPA managers’ perspectives
- Air quality science and applications sessions
- Poster session (3-5 pm)
Day 2: Wednesday January 6
- Air quality managers’ session and discussion panel
- Group photo (11:45 am)
- Air quality science and applications sessions
Day 3: Thursday January 7
- Tiger Team breakouts
- AQAST action items
19 team members appointed in May 2011 for 5-year terms
satellites
suborbital platforms
AQAST
models
Earth Science resources
AQAST
Pollution monitoring
Exposure assessment
AQ forecasting
Source attribution
Quantifying emissions
External influences
AQ processes
Climate interactions
US air quality management
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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 State4U.)
What makes AQAST unique?
Broad mandate to serve the evolving needs of US air quality management
o AQAST is self-organizing, defines its own projects in consultation with AQ managers
o Focus is on quick response to AQ agencies at national/regional/state/local levels
o All projects involve partnerships with AQ managers, application outcomes
o Multi-member Tiger Teams tackle problems requiring coordinated activity
o Communication with AQ managers is emphasized through multiple channels
o Outreach to public is an additional important component
Quick, collaborative, flexible,
responsive to the needs of the AQ
community
http://www.aqast.org/
http://www.aqast-media.org/
Current AQAST Tiger Teams
Selected through on-line polling of AQ management community (62 responses)
and subsequent review by AQ managers’ panel (Pat Dolwick, EPA; Tom Moore, WRAP;
Susan Wierman, MARAMA; Paul Miller, NESCAUM)
Source contributions to O3 and PM2.5
pollution episodes across Eastern US
(Holloway, Fiore)
LADCO, MARAMA, OTC, Connecticut,
Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New
Hampshire, New York, Texas, Maricopa
Satellite NO2 columns, NOx emissions,
and air quality in North America
(Streets)
EPA, LADCO, Maryland
Satellite signatures of emissions
associated with US oil & gas extraction
(Thompson)
BLM, EPA Region 8, MARAMA, CenSARA,
Colorado, Maryland, Oklahoma
Web-enabled tools for AQ
management decision support
(Szykman, Spak)
EPA, Iowa, San Joaquin
Dynamic inputs of Natural
Conditions for Air Quality Models
(Cohan)
EPA, California, Texas
Air quality reanalysis
(Carmichael)
EPA, CDC, California, Georgia,
Maryland, Virginia, South Coast
Evaluation of AQAST’s impact
(Milford)
EPA, WRAP, San Joaquin
Air quality agency partners on AQAST projects
EPA2
EPA8
EPA5
5 National
9 Regional
16 State
6 Local
EPA, NOAA, CDC
NPS, BLM
Air quality agencies participating in AQAST meetings
EPA2
EPA8
EPA5
EPA9
EPA4
EPA, NOAA, CDC,
NPS, BLM, USDA
6 National
12 Regional
27 State
7 Local
Number of publications
Publications acknowledging AQAST funding
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Multiple PIs
Multiple AQAST PIs
Single AQAST
PI
Single AQAST PI
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
30% of 2014-2015 AQAST publications were written as collaboration between PIs
Feb. 2014 AQAST special issue of Environmental Manager
13 contributing AQAST PIs
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NASA AQAST
(Jacob et al.)
Integrating satellite data into air quality
management: experience from
Colorado
(Witman and Holloway)
Monitoring PM2.5 for health: past,
present, and future directions
(Liu)
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.)
AQAST primer on use of satellite data to quantify emissions
Tiger Team involving 10 AQAST PIs
Highly Cited Paper (top 1% of Earth science 2013 publications)
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AQAST primer on use of satellite data for AQ applications
Tiger Team involving 10 AQAST PIs
Single most downloaded Energy & Earth Science article since January 2014
12
Many facets of AQAST support of air quality management
software tools
working on SIPs
Interpretation
of events
organization of conferences
training workshops
AIRS ozone
exceptional
event
designations
NO2 trends lenticular
AQAST outreach
Twitter: @NASA_AQAST
AQAST
media
center
ozone gardens
News
conferences
Continuity of AQ measurements from space
is now ensured by operational satellites
GOME-2 and IASI (Europe), OMPS and VIIRS (US)
Summer 2013 Formaldehyde
09:30 LT
GOME2-B
13:30 LT
OMPS
TROPOMI to be launched in 2016: daily NO2, formaldehyde, ozone, CO, methane
at 7x7 km2 resolution
Current methane observations from GOSAT
Next frontier: NASA TEMPO geostationary satellite data
2018-2021 launch; PI Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian)
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Hourly observations at 2x2 km2 resolution
Aerosol optical depth, ozone, NO2, formaldehyde, SO2…
First measurements of ozone in boundary layer (visible Chappuis bands)
Part of a geostationary constellation with concurrent satellites observing
East Asia and Europe
AQAST legacy and future
• AQAST has been tremendously successful
• It has developed broad relationships with AQ agencies at all levels
• It has transformed the use of Earth science products for AQ applications
• It has elevated the visibility of AQ research and applications at NASA
• AQAST work must continue in the future
• Maintain the network of partnerships developed with AQ community
• Respond to emerging AQ issues
• Exploit new opportunities offered by TROPOMI, TEMPO
New H-AQAST team now being solicited by NASA ASP for Juy 2016 start;
AQAST will live on!