Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST)
EARTH SCIENCE SERVING AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT NEEDS
Earth science resources
Air Quality Management Needs
satellites
suborbital platforms
AQAST
models
AQAST
• Pollution monitoring
• Exposure assessment
• AQ forecasting
• Source attribution of events
• Quantifying emissions
• Assessment of natural and
international influences
• Understanding of transport,
chemistry, aerosol processes
• Understanding of climate-AQ
interactions
AQAST Membership: PIs and Co-Is
• Daniel Jacob (leader), Loretta Mickley (Harvard)
• 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 (NOAA/GFDL); Meiyun Lin (Princeton)
• Jack Fishman, Ben de Foy (Saint Louis U.)
• Daven Henze, Jana Milford (U. Colorado)
• Tracey Holloway, Steve Ackerman (U. Wisconsin); Bart Sponseller (Wisconsin DRC)
• 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.)
AQAST organization
• AQAST supports two types of projects:
Investigator Projects (IPs). These involve typically a single AQAST
member working with an air quality management partner;
 Tiger Team Projects (TTPs). These involve a collaboration of several
AQAST members pooling their expertise to address urgent needs from one
or more air quality management partners.
• AQAST projects must bridge Earth Science and air quality management:
Focus on use of Earth Science resources
 Clear air quality management outcomes
 1-year deliverables of value for air quality agencies
• AQAST has great flexibility in how it allocates its resources
 Members are encouraged to adjust their IPs to the evolving needs of air
quality management
 The TTPs are redefined yearly to address the most pressing needs
The team is self-organizing and can respond quickly to demands
Scope of current AQAST projects (IPs and TTPs)
Partner agency
• Local: RAQC, BAAQD
• State: TCEQ, MDE,
Wisconsin DNR, CARB,
Iowa DNR, GAEPD, GFC
• Interstate: EPA Region 8,
LADCO
• National: NPS, NOAA,
EPA
Theme
Satellites: MODIS, MISR, MOPITT, AIRS, OMI, TES, GOES
Suborbital: ARCTAS, DISCOVER-AQ, ozonesondes, PANDORA
Models: MOZART, CAM AM-3, GEOS-Chem, RAQMS, STEM, GISS, IPCC
Earth Science resource
AQAST SCHEDULE
- Oct 2012: TTP new TTPs initiated
- Aug 2012: team telecon
- new TTP proposals reviewed
- May 2012: next AQAST meeting
- report on IPs, kick-off for new IPs
- progress report for TTPs
- Nov 2011: RTP meeting
- progress reports for IPs
- kick-off for TTPs
- Oct 2011: 1st round of TTPs initiated
- Aug 2011: team telecon
-TTP proposals reviewed
- May 2011: Boulder meeting
- kick-off for 1st round of IPs
- Jan 2011: team selected
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