Air Quality Breakout, ESIP 2013 Winter Meeting

Presentations and Notes from Breakout Sessions

ESIP Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) and GEO Air Quality Community of Practice (AQCoP)
Session Facilitator: Ann Keane, NOAA
Session Notes: Greg Frost, CU/NOAA

Thursday, January 10, 2013

SESSION 1 8:30-10:00 GMT-5 (Also see notes at http://commons.esipfed.org/node/731)

SESSION 2 10:30-12:00 GMT-5

SESSION LEAD: Ann Keane (NOAA)

SESSION 1 PARTICIPANTS

In-person: Richard Eckman, Stefan Falke, Greg Frost, Rudy Husar, Ann Keane, Terry Keating, Chris Lynnes, Kelly Monteleone, Erin Robinson

Remote: Jennifer Davis, Claire Granier, Praveen Noojipady, Martin Schultz, Uma Shankar, Wenli Yang

SESSION 2 PARTICIPANTS

In-person: Richard Eckman, Stefan Falke, Greg Frost, Rudy Husar, Ann Keane, Terry Keating, Ken Keiser

Remote: Zac Adelman, Sarav Arunachalam, Steve Keppler, Martin Schultz, Uma Shankar

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

Stefan Falke - History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG

Stefan Falke: Overview of ESIP AQWG - link to Stefan PPT

- AQ Cluster has connected lots of data systems and programs, through efforts like DataFed
- Need to figure out what’s still operational in this network
- Timeline of AQ Cluster, AQWG, GEO AQCoP activity
- ESIP Clusters meant to be short term. As interest and goals become longer term, AQ Cluster became AQWG
- As AQWG, group involved with ESIP activities, governance, eligible for support, etc
- Stefan ran logistics for AQWG during much of its history

Erin Robinson: The Role of ESIP

- ESIP AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping
- ESIP AQWG loaded in AQ datasets, built interoperable systems, contributed to best practices collection
- Neutral space for coordination and interaction
- Bringing together people at technical practitioner level
- Support technical infrastructure for science applications
- Provide virtual interaction as well as human interaction
- ESIP critical to AQCoP functions

Rudy Husar: ‬Introduction to GEO AQ CoP

- AQCoP Regional Clusters for North America, Europe, India
- ESIP wiki provides workspace for AQWG & AQCoP
- Tour of ESIP GEO AQCoP workspace
- Goal is an interoperable AQ Data Network (ADN)
- ADN Solta 2011 Meeting: connect the connectors to create a network
- AQ Data Network (ADN)
- DataFed, a node of ADN - is an implementation of the GEOSS data sharing paradigm

Martin Schultz – European Perspectives on AQCoP; JOIN

(See Schultz presentation file)

AQCoP/ADN issues:
- 1st meeting - Solta
- 2nd meeting - Dublin
- 3rd meeting - Mumbai
- AQCoP mailing list – need to increase usage
- Confusion on the European side about GEO AQCoP
- Delineate better who is doing what, try to make that clear to EU folks
- Continue series of workshops
- Propose next workshop in Boulder this fall

JOIN – Jülich OWS Interface
- ECCAD data served up – example overlay ACCMP and PAN data from model
- JOIN is ready for users as of week of January 7
- Jülich test system still available until end of month
- Next steps for JOIN:
  - Restructuring and public release of core code – can port to ECCAD, IAGOS groups, CIERA
- Support: MACC, IGAS (Toulouse IAGOS data), EPA, FZ Jülich, EU, HTAP

MACC requests of AQCoP (MACC = EU’s chemical forecasting effort):
- Better user management
- Direct linking to specific data sets and views
- Consolidate metadata profile and publish metadata records – still working on best practice recommendations

HTAP requests of AQCoP (HTAP = intercontinental pollutant transport model intercomparison exercise):
- Geneva meeting in mid-March
- Linkage to met.no server (new HTAP archive)
- More model and data comparison tools

Claire Granier – ECCAD

ECCAD portal = http://pole-ether.fr/eccad
ECCAD delivers emission inventories and ancillary data
Ether – European Earth Science network
Links to Julich server
Making the data useful to a broad community, simple to use tools
Next steps:
- Include more GHGs, toxics

Greg Frost – Emissions Data Needs, Issues, and Interoperability from the GEIA Perspective

GEIA portal = http://www.geiacenter.org/
Motivation for improving emissions data
Overview of GEIA’s mission and goals
Examples of GEIA activities, including ECCAD (http://pole-ether.fr/eccad) and CIERA (http://ciera-air.org/) portals
GEIA relies heavily on its partnership with AQCoP
Scientific and technical needs for improving access and analysis of emissions data
Suggest changing name of GEO AQCoP to “Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition CoP”

Uma Shankar – UNC/CMAS Efforts

(See Shankar presentation file)

Support EPA capabilities for regional chemical transport modeling and emissions
Perspective and needs for delivering data to EPA and other US regulatory entities
Engage groups who provide various data sets for emission modeling (land cover, etc) in AQCoP
- Data are distributed all over the place, but not connected right now
CMAS carries out its efforts through work assignments
Modeling platforms from OAQPS and what’s being done in ORD are not well connected

Emission Modeling Framework database – Zac Adelman, Uma
- EPA’s data could be made available through this database

Recommends not duplicating efforts, and keeping CMAS involved, especially due to limited resources on US side

Terry Keating – Issues of interest to AQWG/AQCoP

Bringing satellite data into AirNow

HTAP
- Example of why we need a GEOSS
- Next meeting in Geneva, March 18-22, in conjunction with WMO’s 2013 conference
- Details at http://www.htap.org/
- Objectives:
  - Establish science, evaluations, analyses to be done in HTAP
  - Status of information infrastructure that’s been created for HTAP
- Could expand Martin Schultz group’s system built for HTAP Phase 1
- Modeling resources:
  - Data at Julich and met.no (AeroCom)
  - Ensemble system at JRC
  - Atmospheric Brown Cloud Asia
  - MICS Asia (Tokyo, China) – Asian modeling
  - RSIG – regional modeling exercises
- Observations:
  - Surface – NILU (EBAS)
  - Aircraft – ATOM (NASA Langley)
  - Satellite – NASA GIOVANNI, Atmos Comp Portal
- Emissions:
  - GEIA/CIERA – one platform to deliver HTAP emissions
  - ECCAD – another platform to deliver HTAP emissions; in process of modifying to accept information at higher resolution
- Development of analysis tools that draw on these databases
  - Some work at DataFed, MACC to develop tools: this effort could be expanded

North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation Climate Information System
- CEC involves US, Canada, Mexico
- CEC had a scoping project about this – decided to focus on emissions
  - identified need for web services approach to delivering these data
- 3 countries working on online database of GHG and BC emissions
- Proposals due next week, select contractor by end of January, work done by end of July
- Tri-national national-level database focused on GHGs, BC, and related emissions
- Terry will connect contractor to AQCoP

AQCoP Governance
- Wiki discussion initiated
- Recommend defining co-chairs, secretariat, steering body

GROUP DISCUSSION

Name of AQCoP

Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name
Need to let GEO know about this change
Alert ESIP?

AQCoP Governance

Possible telecon to formalize the governance - early February?
Need some governance in place before we call another meeting of the AQCoP
In addition to “top-down” structure, need “bottom up” governance
Need technical committee to deal with network issues: data catalog, metadata…
Perhaps defining these tasks as working groups?
High-level umbrella steering group necessary for strategic planning and to secure resources
Need improved forum for communication and coordination
Suggestion to nominate 2 interim chairs or conveners to help organize meetings and coordinate efforts

Proposed Agenda - Ann Keane & Community

Session1: January 10 8:30-10:00 GMT-5

Introduction to the GEO AQ CoP - Rudy Husar

10 minute presentations on the current state of data services and data needs from
- Juelich - Martin Schultz
- DataFed - Rudy Husar
- ECCAD - Claire Granier
- NILU
- NOAA - Ann Keane, WCS
- GEO AQ Data Network: Servers and Clients on the Network; Catalog; Client-Server Data Flow - Rudy Husar
- NOAA/Greg Frost
- EPA/Terry Keating
- UNC/Uma Shankar

Discussion of CoP Governance and issues raised during the session. To be continued in the second session.

Some of topics to cover might be:

what data is provided
what technologies are used
who is using the data for what
what difficulties have you encountered
what is needed for future development

Session2: January 10 10:30-12:00 GMT-5

This session will cover issues raised in the first session. Some potential topics:

Issues faced by modelers in accessing data services.
Issues of accessing data services
Issues of publishing data services
Existing metadata standards and conventions
Use cases for the existing services
Discussion of technologies for access to large data for various types of post-processing web services. The IRODS group may be presenting at ESIP as well.
How to proceed with metadata data developments started in Dublin.
Discussion of the next versions of WCS and DAP.
Data conventions for distributing point data.
Data catalog registration and search access. Does AQCoP need a faceted search i.e. [1]?

The goal of these two sessions will be to gain a better understanding of how the community is working and what work needs to be done to meet the broader scientific priorities.