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| 3D-AQS + | The 3D-AQS project is using a range of rem … The 3D-AQS project is using a range of remote sensing instruments to expand EPA’s AQS into a three-dimensional system of nation-wide coverage, with the goal of providing information on the vertical and horizontal distribution of pollutants, particularly aerosols and particulates. The 3D-AQS project has three key initiatives. First, the project is improving existing data and visualization methods by developing finer resolution products, quantitative analysis of the satellite data with ground-based data, and creating new visualizations of 3D air quality information. Second, the project integrates satellite and lidar data into EPA’s AirQuest system, a database that merges AQS and AIRNow data with other monitor, model, and socioeconomic data, making the NASA data easily accessible. Third, the Integrating satellite Data from Environmental Applications (IDEA) product, which unites a range of satellite data in near real time, is bing migrated to an operational environment within NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). IDEA is being enhanced to include data from GASP and the ground-based LIDAR sensors. An end user advisory committee comprised of air quality forecasters and analysts is providing input and advice at each stage of the project. t and advice at each stage of the project. |
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| AIRNow + | The U.S. EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, an … The U.S. EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies developed AIRNow to provide the public, the media, and decision-makers with easy access to nationwide air quality information. The main web site offers daily [http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=static.aqi Air Quality Index] (AQI) forecasts as well as real-time AQI conditions for over 300 cities across the US, and provides links to more detailed state and local air quality Web sites. The primary purposes of AIRNow are to 1) collect and provide information to enable the public and others to take make health-based decisions, 2) provide information exchange and data access for local, tribal, state, and federal air quality agencies, and 3) provide real-time data to other research and operational data systems (NASA, NOAA, Universities, etc.).
* [http://www.airnow.gov Main AIRNow website]
* [http://www.airnowgateway.org Data and information distribution system] that allows organizations to register and access the publicly available AIRNow data. Data can be accessed in text files (CSV format) and web services
* [http://www.airnowtech.org Technical portal into AIRNow Data Management Center] that allows stakeholders to control their data, submit their forecasts, use the GIS Navigator, and monitor status of their data.
* [http://www.airnowtech.org/dmc-monitoring Monitoring system] that shows the products developed by AIRNow and allows the AIRNow DMC and EPA staff to monitor the AIRNow system.
* [http://www.airnowstatus.org/media Media]- Shows examples of how the media are displaying and using information provided by the AIRNow program.
* [http://www.airshare.info/smogstories/ Smog Stories] - Shows output from a joint EPA-NASA pilot project to combine real-time air quality data and satellite images to develop informative stories for the media.
* [http://www.airshare.info Public communicators’ portal] for contributing and exchanging information about public outreach programs throughout the U.S. blic outreach programs throughout the U.S. |
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| CASTNET + | The Clean Air Status & Trends Network … The Clean Air Status & Trends Network (CASTNET) is a rural, regional monitoring network designed primarily to measure seasonal and annual average concentrations and depositions over many years. CASTNET measurements are used to track long-term temporal and spatial trends due to changes in air quality. Data is used to assess the environmental impacts as a result of the U.S. EPA’s emission reduction programs (in particular, the Acid Rain Program (ARP) and the NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP)). In the future, CASTNET is expected to serve as an assessment tool for the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR). Data measured from the CASTNET network is used by universities, ecologists, tribes, as well as federal regulators, as it is the only national long-term, regional, rural monitoring network. -term, regional, rural monitoring network. |
| CMAQ + | The CMAQ model is a comprehensive, three-d … The CMAQ model is a comprehensive, three-dimensional, grid-based Eulerian air quality model designed to estimate ozone and particulate concentrations and deposition over a broad range of temporal and spatial scales. CMAQ, which is a publically available, peer-reviewed, state-of-the-science model, consists of a number of science attributes that are critical for simulating the oxidant precursors and non-linear organic and inorganic chemical relationships associated with the formation of ozone and sulfate, nitrate, and organic aerosols. CMAQ also simulates the transport and removal of directly emitted particles which are speciated as elemental carbon, crustal material, nitrate, sulfate, and organic aerosols. Additionally, the multi-pollutant version of CMAQ simulates mercury and over 30 toxic volatile organic compounds and metals.
CMAQ is being used by the US EPA, State and Regional environmental organizations, universities, and independent research organizations to provide data in support of a wide range of analyses linked to understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of pollutant concentrations and deposition in relation to emissions and meteorology and as part of regulatory programs for evaluating the effectiveness of emissions control strategies for attainment of National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
The US EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards in collaboration with the Office of Research and Development have recently run CMAQ for the full year of 2002 using a 2002-based air quality modeling platform. 2002-based air quality modeling platform. |
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| DataFed + | DataFed is Web services-based software tha … DataFed is Web services-based software that non-intrusively mediates between autonomous, distributed data providers and users. DataFed is designed in accordance with the GEOSS architecture; It provides standard interfaces to heterogeneous distributed data, fosters data integration and use with processing web services and tools, and collects metadata and user-feedback on datasets. DataFed also provides standards-based data feeds to the NASA Giovanni System. ed data feeds to the NASA Giovanni System. |
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| EMF + | Emissions Modeling Framework (EMF) is an “ … Emissions Modeling Framework (EMF) is an “expert system” software tool for EPA staff and contractors involved in emissions modeling. “Emissions modeling” is process of converting emission inventory data from its raw form to the forms needed by air quality models used to predict ozone, particulate matter, and hazardous air pollutants in the ambient air. This software is needed to improve efficiency and quality control of in-house and contractor emissions modeling and to provide transparency and data access to those who need information about the work of those modelers. Additionally, we anticipate making this software available to those outside of EPA so that they can have a copy of this same tool; these users would not interact with the EPA system, but rather have their own system installed at their location.
The software is a client-server application based on a three-tier architecture (see http://www.sei.cmu.edu/str/descriptions/clientserver.html). The three tiers are (1) the user interface client, (2) a database management layer, and (3) a middleware layer between the other two tiers that is used to implement the business logic of the software application. This architecture is needed to support the requirement that both data and a set of compute servers be shared among a set of users. The EPA installation of the software has user access only from inside the EPA/RTP firewall.
The EMF provides integrated quality control processes to foster high quality of emissions results, data handling, organization of data in a central database server, tracking of emissions modeling efforts, and real-time accessibility of information. A user interface will allow non-experts to access emission modeling capabilities. The interface will be able to facilitate various activities related to emissions modeling in addition the computation of emission inputs for air quality models. Such activities include 1) the acceptance of new EPA-provided data into the system with appropriate quality control and tracking; 2) set-up and execution of emissions modeling for air quality modeling applications; 3) quality assurance of emissions modeling results; 4) reporting and archiving of reports of emission inventory data; and 5) accessing projection and control information that is used for creating future-year emissions estimates. creating future-year emissions estimates. |
| EPA AIRQuest Data Warehouse + | The audience, at present, is INTERNAL EPA … The audience, at present, is INTERNAL EPA analysts, application builders, and data integrators. AIRQuest was constructed as a true data warehouse, built to integrate data from various source data systems, to enable complete air quality analyses from a single system. AIRQuest harvests data from AQS, NEI, and AIRNow, integrating that data spatially and temporally. It also features datasets outside of EPA that are useful for analysis -- meteorological, census, etc. r analysis -- meteorological, census, etc. |
| EPA AQS + | AQS is the national repository for ambient … AQS is the national repository for ambient air quality data. It is intended primarily or State, Local, and Tribal organizations to supply their data to the USEPA. However, the system does allow for the extraction of data through standardized reports and on-line forms to view the data. eports and on-line forms to view the data. |
| ESIP + | The Federation of Earth Science Informatio … The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a consortium of over 100 organizations in government academia, and industry that collect, disseminate, interpret and apply Earth observation information. ESIP serves as a forum for fostering and sustaining collaborations and interoperability that aim to improve processes for the use of earth observation information in research, education, management and policy.
ESIP "clusters" are domain-specific focus groups that are intended to promote informal, easy exchange of information among organizations. The ESIP Air Quality Cluster aims to connect air quality data consumers and providers by:
* bringing people and ideas together on how to deliver ES data to AQ researchers, managers and other users/consumers
* facilitate and demonstrate the information flow of from data providers to air quality consumer
[[Image:ESIP-Decadal_Survey_Mapping.jpg|ESIP in light of Decadal Survey]] ping.jpg|ESIP in light of Decadal Survey]] |
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| GIOVANNI + | The Goddard Online Interactive Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure or "Giovanni" is an online tool allowing researchers, students, and application users to easily explore, inter-compare, and analyze remote sensing data using only a Web browser. |
| GeoWeb + | The Environmental Geoweb Service (Geoweb) … The Environmental Geoweb Service (Geoweb) is a service that locates, indexes, and presents geographically-referenced scientific data so that EPA scientists can perform cross-disciplinary searches for data of relevance to their work, and can publish data from their research that might benefit other scientists. The Geoweb Service has been designed and developed within the EPA and is currently in an early stage of production use.
The Geoweb Server searches for and indexes geographically-referenced scientific data made public on the servers of organizations outside of the EPA, or on selected data servers within the EPA network. The outside sources are currently concentrated at NASA, NOAA, and the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere. The inside sources include Community Mesoscale Air Quality data. The Geoweb Service has the potential to index any geographically-referenced data published on servers inside or outside of the EPA. User connection to search the index is only available from workstations on the EPA internal network.
The Geoweb Server normally performs its dataset indexing at a weekly interval. The Server is instructed to web-crawl an adjustable list of scientific data servers. Metadata about the files found on the indexed servers is brought back to EPA’s Geoweb Server and assembled into an xml database. This database contains all computer-obtainable metadata about each indexed file, and the location of the file on the Internet. The data files themselves remain on the servers where originally published. Currently, about 700,000 scientific files are indexed.
Users of the Geoweb Service connect to it at http://gds.rtpnc.epa.gov. They can follow links to specific data sources found on the home page, or perform searches for data by providing search terms. The searches execute quickly because the metadata being searched is all local to the Geoweb Server. The user is presented with a search results list, similar to Google or Yahoo search results. The user can then view the metadata associated with each dataset, or initiate a visualization of the data contents. The visualizations are performed using the World Wind Geo tool, based on NASA’s World Wind, and developed here at EPA; or by using Google Earth, NASA’s World Wind, or ArcGIS Explorer. The reading of metadata and the visualization of the data correctly referenced to the World Wind, Google Earth, or ArcGIS globe is supported for all data set types. Data served from OPeNDAP servers can also be subsetted by geographic bounding boxes, date, or time and the data subset can then be downloaded across the Internet to the user’s workstation. ss the Internet to the user’s workstation. |
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| HEI + | The HEI Air Quality Database focuses on le … The HEI Air Quality Database focuses on levels of PM2.5 components and gaseous pollutants at and near sites in the EPA's PM2.5 Chemical Speciation Trends Network (STN) and State, Local and Tribal air monitoring stations (SLAMS). The Database was originally made available in association with HEI's Request for Applications 05-1, Studies to Compare Components and Characteristics of Particulate Matter Associated with Health Effects, which was issued in the summer of 2005. The Database is now available to investigators interested in using the information for studies on air quality and health. Currently, the Database contains information on speciated PM components and gaseous pollutants at these sites for the years 2000-2006 and it is anticipated that the information will be updated regularly for the next 2-3 years. updated regularly for the next 2-3 years. |
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| NARSTO + | NARSTO (formerly North American Research S … NARSTO (formerly North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone) is a public/private partnership, whose membership spans government, the utilities, industry, and academe throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Its primary mission is to coordinate and enhance policy-relevant scientific research and assessment of tropospheric pollution behavior; its activities provide input for science-based decision-making and determination of workable, efficient, and effective strategies for local and regional air-pollution management. Data products from local, regional, and international monitoring and research programs are available '''through the NARSTO Permanent Data Archive at the Langley DAAC.''' anent Data Archive at the Langley DAAC.''' |
| NASA Atmospheric Science Data Center + | The Earth Observing System Data and Inform … The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) manages and distributes data products through the Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs). The centers process, archive, document, and distribute data from NASA’s past and current research satellites and field programs. Each center serves one or more specific Earth science disciplines and provides data products, data information, services, and tools unique to its particular science.
The Atmospheric Science Data Center is responsible for processing, archival and distribution of NASA Earth science data in the areas of radiation budget, clouds, aerosols, and tropospheric chemistry. It is unique among NASA data centers in the size of its archive, cutting edge computing technology and full range of data services. echnology and full range of data services. |
| NEISGEI + | NEISGEI is part of an effort to foster global air emissions networks that provide access to distributed emission inventory data, analysis tools, and an environment for collaboration among researchers, managers, and the interested public. |
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| RSIG + | The RSIG applet allows users to interactiv … The RSIG applet allows users to interactively specify, visualize and save a subset of meteorological and air-quality data from a variety of sources including:
*NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite data
*The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model output
*National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) biomass burning data
*AIRNow and Air Quality System (AQS) ground station measurements.
Data subsets are interactively specified by user-selected variable,time-range and lon-lat box and quickly displayed together over a map and animated over time.
Images and data may be saved on the user's computer in a variety of formats, including PNG, MPEG, KMZ, ASCII, XDR, NetCDF, and HDF, for later analysis and integration with other applications.
The RSIG applet accesses a set of remote OGC-WCS web server applications also developed at EPA and installed at the remote sites that store the data. By operating at the source, these servers and associated subset programs enable fast and convenient streaming of data subsets across the network to achieve an impressive response of "about a minute per day's worth of data". (Other applications, such as EGS and AirQuest, also benefit by utilizing these powerful server programs.) See also [[Remote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG)]] emote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG)]] |
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| Unidata IDD Data System + | The Unidata community of over 150 universi … The Unidata community of over 150 universities has built a system for disseminating real-time earth observations via the Internet. Unlike other systems, which are based on data centers where the information can be accessed, the [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd/ Unidata IDD] is designed so a university can request that certain data sets be delivered to computers at their site as soon as they are available from the observing system. The IDD system also allows any site with access to specialized observations to inject the dataset into the IDD for delivery to other interested sites. Many of the 250 participating sites are receiving about 2GB of real-time data per hour via the IDD -- including weather forecasts, weather station obs, data from all NEXRADS, GOES satellite imagery, lightning strike data, aircraft-borne measurements, etc. The IDD recently surpassed FTP in terms of the amount of data delivered on the Internet 2. These datasets range from huge NCEP model ouputs run on an hourly basis to data from NEXRAD radars which come in at a rate of dozens of products per second. Early experiments are underway with the DataFed group for using the underlying Unidata [http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/ Local Data Manager (LDM)]to deliver air quality data in real time )]to deliver air quality data in real time |
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| VIEWS + | The Visibility Information Exchange Web Sy … The Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) is an online system of data and tools designed to support the EPA's Regional Haze Rule by providing states, tribes, scientists, researchers, planners, students, and others with easy online access to a wide variety of air quality datasets. The VIEWS team maintains a comprehensive database of air quality data from over two dozen monitoring networks and is constantly acquiring new data sets and adding new networks. The VIEWS website offers many tools and resources, including the Database Query Wizard, an air quality trends tool, an aerosol species composition tool, a monitoring site metadata browser, a dynamic contour-mapping tool, general-purpose charting and graphing tools, visibility photographs, Class I Area webcams, and more. The VIEWS website currently has over 1100 registered users from over 100 different countries and hosts thousands of visitors each month. The VIEWS team also develops and maintains the IMPROVE website, the WRAP Technical Support System (TSS), and the Air Toxics Data Archive (ATDA), all of which utilize the foundational database and software architecture developed for VIEWS. Ongoing development and maintenance of VIEWS is conducted by Colorado State University's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) in Fort Collins, Colorado. Visitors to VIEWS are encouraged to register and provide comments, questions, and feedback to the VIEWS team regarding all aspects of the website and database. g all aspects of the website and database. |
