Welcome to the 9th Semiannual Meeting
of the NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team!
Saint Louis University, June 2-4, 2015
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Meeting goals:
1. To exchange information on Earth Science resources for air quality and on
air quality management needs;
2. To direct AQAST activities to address AQ management needs.
A quick overview of the agenda
Day 1: Tuesday June 2
- AQAST overview
- Air quality science and applications session
- Midwest air quality management session
- Group photo
- Forest Park ozone garden and reception at Planetarium
Day 2: Wednesday June 3
- Air quality science and applications sessions
- Poster session
Day 3: Thursday June 4
- AQAST activities in support of TEMPO
- 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?
All AQAST projects connect Earth Science and air quality management
 Involve active partnerships with air quality managers, have deliverable
application outcomes
Expand relationships through meetings, online tools, newsletters, surveys
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 in consultation with
air quality management community to address 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
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Year 4 Tiger Teams
1. Web-enabled tools for air quality management decision support
(Szykman, Spak) with EPA, Iowa DNR, San Joaquin Valley APCD
2. Source contributions to O3 and PM2.5 pollution episodes across Eastern US
(Holloway, Fiore) with LADCO, Wisconsin DNR, Missouri, New Hampshire,
New York, MDE, TCEQ
3. Dynamic inputs of Natural Conditions for Air Quality Models (DYNAMO)
(Cohan) with EPA, TCEQ, CARB
4. Satellite NO2 columns, NOx emissions, and air quality in North America
(Streets) with EPA, LADCO, MDE
5. Satellite signatures of emissions associated with US oil & gas extraction
(Thompson) with BLM, EPA Region 8, MARAMA, CenSARA, Oklahoma DEQ,
MDE, CDPHE
6. Air quality reanalysis (translating research to services)
(Carmichael) with EPA, CARB, Georgia DNR, MDE, Virginia DEQ
7. Evaluation of AQAST’s impact on the air quality management community
(Milford) with EPA, WRAP, SJVACPD
AQ agency
• Local: RAQC, BAAQD,
SJVAPCD, CDPHE
• States: California,
Colorado, Georgia, Iowa,
Maryland, New Hampshire,
New York, Oklahoma,
Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin,
Wyoming
• Regional: LADCO,
CenSARA, MARAMA
• National: EPA, NOAA,
NPS, BLM, USFS
AQAST projects cover wide range of themes,
Earth Science resources, AQ agency partners
Theme
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
Earth Science resource
92 AQAST publications in peer-reviewed literature
Many facets of AQAST support of air quality management
publications for managers
software tools
organization of conferences
training workshops
ozone gardens network
exceptional
event
designations
AQAST
media
center
media days
Continuity of AQ measurements from space
ensured by operational satellites
GOME-2 and IASI (Europe), OMPS and VIIRS (US)
Summer 2013 Formaldehyde
09:30 LT
GOME2-B
13:30 LT
SAO 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
Need to develop framework for early/effective use ot TEMPO data by AQ managers
What future for AQAST?
• Mandate of current team ends in 2016; first-of-its-kind NASA Applications
Science Team
• AQAST evaluation Tiger Team will study impact, lessons learned
• Other applications communities will want their “AQAST” too!
• AQAST needs to continue in some form
• Maintain the network of partnerships developed with user community
• AQ issues continue to evolve rapidly
• Exploit new opportunities offered by TROPOMI, TEMPO
A sample of testimonials from AQ managers…
• “AQAST’s participation in EPA’s stratospheric intrustion workgroup has
been a big success… AQAST is being held up as an example of the type of
relationship EPA would like to have with NASA….” (Terry Keating, EPA)
• “The N-deposition AQAST project will support the review of the secondary
NAAQS…” (Rich Scheffe, EPA)
• “AQAST has provided vital information on two specific aspects of
background ozone that have directly informed EPA policy planning…” (Pat
Dolwick, EPA)
• “AQAST’s Rapid Benefits Calculator alleviates a major limiting factor for
quantifying the impacts of air pollutants around the world…” (Susan
Anenberg, EPA)
• “AQAST helps us answer very important questions for the state…” (Angie
Dickens, Wisconsin DNR)
• “The support from AQAST has provided enormous benefit for the Maryland
ozone SIP…” (George Aburn, MDE)
• “AQAST improves the decision-making system…” (Ajith Kaduwela, CARB)
• “I applaud AQAST for developing techniques for using satellite data to
improve modeling of the physical atmosphere…" (Bright Dornblaser, TCEQ)
• “Your work has been invaluable to us…In AQAST, we have a team of experts
to turn to (Patrick Reddy, Colorado DPHE)
• “AQAST allowed us to use state-of-science boundary conditions for our
ozone SIP and document exceptional events (Kenneth Lloyd, RAQC)