NO2 Workshop
October 31-November 1, 2007
EPA HQ, Washington, DC
Objective:
Assemble air pollution monitoring scientists (satellite and surface sensor data producers), information scientists and technology developers, and air quality researchers and managers to begin defining guidelines and best practices in creating web networks and applications that use satellite and surface data for assessment, analysis and modeling of air quality. For purposes of framing the discussion, the group will focus on NO2 monitoring, analysis, modeling and applications.
Desired Outcomes:
- identify and organize, through online methods, available NO2 data and information resources
- develop guidelines and blueprints for improving use of NO2 data in air quality research and management, including advancing initial demonstrations of prototype NO2 web applications
- define cross-organization, cross-project activities to undertake with NO2 data and web networks and explore related opportunities to advance other air quality activities
Participant List
Agenda/Minutes:
October 31
8:30-9:00 Workshop overview with expected outcomes
9:00-10:15 Existing AQ network elements and demos of tools and services
- Example prototype web applications (how current applications are using satellite and surface data for air quality assessment, analysis and planning) - 10 minutes each
10:45-12:15 Existing AQ network elements and demos of tools and services
- DIAL NO2 Desktop Data Explorer Prototype See also: http://nmri.org/taxonomy/term/40
- Emissions Comparison Tools (Mashups)
- DataFed NO2 Analysis
1:15-3:15 Feedback and insight from the perspective:
- Air quality researchers and planners
- Rich Scheffe, EPA/OAQPS; NO2 and Satellites
- Data product and sensor scientists
- Randall Martin, Dalhousie University and Harvard-Smithsonian; Ground-level NO2 Concentrations Inferred from OMI
- Ernest Hilsenrath, NASA Headquarters; Atmospheric Composition Constellation
3:45-5:00 Feedback and insight from the perspective of:
- Data product and sensor/monitor scientists
- Edward Celarier, NASA/GSFC; The OMI NO2 Standard Product
- Air quality researchers and planners
- Trevor Beck, NOAA-NESDIS; GOME-2 and OMI NO2 Retrievals for Regional and Global Air Quality Modeling Applications
November 1
8:30-11:00 Roundtable: How to improve future AQ applications using satellite and surface data
11:30-12:45 Next steps in developing networked elements and applications