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|About=<div style="margin:10px 20px 10px 0px;text-align:justify;">The [http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/views Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS)] is an online decision support system developed to help federal land managers (FLMs) and states evaluate air quality and improve visibility in federally-protected ecosystems according to the stringent requirements of the EPA’s Regional Haze Rule and the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. VIEWS was recently selected by the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), a collaboration of western states, tribes, and local agencies administered by the Western Governor’s Association and the National Tribal Environmental Council, to serve as the infrastructure for the [http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/tss WRAP Technical Support System (TSS)]. The TSS is an extended suite of analysis and planning tools designed to help planners develop long term emissions control strategies for achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I Areas by 2064. The architected combination of VIEWS and the TSS represents an integrated system that supports a unique synergy of national and regional air quality objectives by providing a consolidated, online system of data access and decision-making tools to planners, researchers, stakeholders, policy makers, and federal agencies across the nation. <br/><br/>VIEWS/TSS employs an advanced data acquisition and import system to integrate data from several air quality data centers into a single, highly-optimized data warehouse. Ground-based measurements from dozens of monitoring networks, air quality modeling results, and detailed emissions inventories are imported and updated on a regular basis using a generalized, uniform data model and carefully standardized metadata. Names, codes, units, and quality flags from the source datasets are carefully mapped to a unified paradigm, and native formats and organizations are transformed into a common, normalized database schema. This design enables users to explore, merge, and analyze datasets of widely-varying origin in a consistent, unified manner with a common set of tools and web services. This degree of interoperability allows decision-makers to analyze diverse datasets side-by-side and focus on high-level planning strategies without having to contend with the details of data management and manipulation.<br/><br/>VIEWS/TSS users are typically asking questions of “What pollutants are impacting a given area?” and “Where are these pollutants coming from?” States are further mandated to answer the question of “What can be done to reduce these impacts?”, because the Regional Haze Rule requires states and tribes to develop implementation plans for reducing emissions and demonstrating reasonable progress towards doing so, and these plans must provide for an improvement during the 20% worst visibility days while also ensuring no degradation during the 20% best visibility days. To accomplish this, users must identify the pollutants, quantify their amounts, and determine the sources of anthropogenic emissions that contribute to this pollution on both the “best” and the “worst” visibility days in a given area. They must then determine available control measures for each source and evaluate these measures on the basis of costs, time, energy and environmental impacts, and the remaining life of the source. Planners then employ these analyses to make decisions about what controls to implement, to estimate projected improvements, and to track their progress in reaching these goals. The resulting decisions have obvious ecological impacts, but can also have important political and economic impacts in the sense that deciding which sources to control is a politically-significant issue and the process of controlling emissions and tracking progress costs money and takes time.<br/><br/><b>More information:<br/><br/>[http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/views2/About.aspx About VIEWS]<br/>[http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/TSS/Home/About.aspx About the TSS]</div>
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|About=<div style="margin:10px 20px 10px 0px;text-align:justify;">The [http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/views Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS)] is an online decision support system developed to help federal land managers (FLMs) and states evaluate air quality and improve visibility in federally-protected ecosystems according to the stringent requirements of the EPA’s Regional Haze Rule and the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. VIEWS was recently selected by the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), a collaboration of western states, tribes, and local agencies administered by the Western Governor’s Association and the National Tribal Environmental Council, to serve as the infrastructure for the [http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/tss WRAP Technical Support System (TSS)]. The TSS is an extended suite of analysis and planning tools designed to help planners develop long term emissions control strategies for achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I Areas by 2064. The architected combination of VIEWS and the TSS represents an integrated system that supports a unique synergy of national and regional air quality objectives by providing a consolidated, online system of data access and decision-making tools to planners, researchers, stakeholders, policy makers, and federal agencies across the nation. <br/><br/>VIEWS/TSS employs an advanced data acquisition and import system to integrate data from several air quality data centers into a single, highly-optimized data warehouse. Ground-based measurements from dozens of monitoring networks, air quality modeling results, and detailed emissions inventories are imported and updated on a regular basis using a generalized, uniform data model and carefully standardized metadata. Names, codes, units, and quality flags from the source datasets are carefully mapped to a unified paradigm, and native formats and organizations are transformed into a common, normalized database schema. This design enables users to explore, merge, and analyze datasets of widely-varying origin in a consistent, unified manner with a common set of tools and web services. This degree of interoperability allows decision-makers to analyze diverse datasets side-by-side and focus on high-level planning strategies without having to contend with the details of data management and manipulation.<br/><br/>VIEWS/TSS users are typically asking questions of “What pollutants are impacting a given area?” and “Where are these pollutants coming from?” States are further mandated to answer the question of “What can be done to reduce these impacts?”, because the Regional Haze Rule requires states and tribes to develop implementation plans for reducing emissions and demonstrating reasonable progress towards doing so, and these plans must provide for an improvement during the 20% worst visibility days while also ensuring no degradation during the 20% best visibility days. To accomplish this, users must identify the pollutants, quantify their amounts, and determine the sources of anthropogenic emissions that contribute to this pollution on both the “best” and the “worst” visibility days in a given area. They must then determine available control measures for each source and evaluate these measures on the basis of costs, time, energy and environmental impacts, and the remaining life of the source. Planners then employ these analyses to make decisions about what controls to implement, to estimate projected improvements, and to track their progress in reaching these goals. The resulting decisions have obvious ecological impacts, but can also have important political and economic impacts in the sense that deciding which sources to control is a politically-significant issue and the process of controlling emissions and tracking progress costs money and takes time.<br/><br/><b>More information:</b> [http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/views2/About.aspx About VIEWS]<br/>[http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/TSS/Home/About.aspx About the TSS]</div>
 
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|DataSystemAgencies=<ul style="margin:10px 20px 10px 20px;"><li>[http://epa.gov/visibility/regional.html Regional Planning Organizations (RPOs)]</li><li>[http://www.nps.gov National Park Service (NPS)]</li><li>[http://www.wrapair.org Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP)]</li><li>[http://www.cira.colostate.edu Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)]</li></ul>

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General

Contact

Data System Name: VIEWS
Data System URL: http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/views/
Contact Person: Shawn McClure
Contact e-mail: [[Contactemail::mcclure@cira.colostate.edu]]

Background

About the Data System (Purposes, Audience)

[[About::

The Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) is an online decision support system developed to help federal land managers (FLMs) and states evaluate air quality and improve visibility in federally-protected ecosystems according to the stringent requirements of the EPA’s Regional Haze Rule and the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. VIEWS was recently selected by the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), a collaboration of western states, tribes, and local agencies administered by the Western Governor’s Association and the National Tribal Environmental Council, to serve as the infrastructure for the WRAP Technical Support System (TSS). The TSS is an extended suite of analysis and planning tools designed to help planners develop long term emissions control strategies for achieving natural visibility conditions in Class I Areas by 2064. The architected combination of VIEWS and the TSS represents an integrated system that supports a unique synergy of national and regional air quality objectives by providing a consolidated, online system of data access and decision-making tools to planners, researchers, stakeholders, policy makers, and federal agencies across the nation.

VIEWS/TSS employs an advanced data acquisition and import system to integrate data from several air quality data centers into a single, highly-optimized data warehouse. Ground-based measurements from dozens of monitoring networks, air quality modeling results, and detailed emissions inventories are imported and updated on a regular basis using a generalized, uniform data model and carefully standardized metadata. Names, codes, units, and quality flags from the source datasets are carefully mapped to a unified paradigm, and native formats and organizations are transformed into a common, normalized database schema. This design enables users to explore, merge, and analyze datasets of widely-varying origin in a consistent, unified manner with a common set of tools and web services. This degree of interoperability allows decision-makers to analyze diverse datasets side-by-side and focus on high-level planning strategies without having to contend with the details of data management and manipulation.

VIEWS/TSS users are typically asking questions of “What pollutants are impacting a given area?” and “Where are these pollutants coming from?” States are further mandated to answer the question of “What can be done to reduce these impacts?”, because the Regional Haze Rule requires states and tribes to develop implementation plans for reducing emissions and demonstrating reasonable progress towards doing so, and these plans must provide for an improvement during the 20% worst visibility days while also ensuring no degradation during the 20% best visibility days. To accomplish this, users must identify the pollutants, quantify their amounts, and determine the sources of anthropogenic emissions that contribute to this pollution on both the “best” and the “worst” visibility days in a given area. They must then determine available control measures for each source and evaluate these measures on the basis of costs, time, energy and environmental impacts, and the remaining life of the source. Planners then employ these analyses to make decisions about what controls to implement, to estimate projected improvements, and to track their progress in reaching these goals. The resulting decisions have obvious ecological impacts, but can also have important political and economic impacts in the sense that deciding which sources to control is a politically-significant issue and the process of controlling emissions and tracking progress costs money and takes time.

More information: About VIEWS
About the TSS

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Presentation

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History

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Agencies

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List of Publications, Papers, Presentations

Data System Scope

Data Content

Datasets Served

[[DataSystemDataSets::

ProgramFreqStartEndRecordsUpdated
AQS Fine Mass FRM (D)Daily01/01/199912/31/200379831704/13/2004
AQS Fine Mass FRM (H)Hourly01/01/199912/31/2003702802304/13/2004
AQS Fine Speciation (D)Daily02/09/200012/31/2006683957605/24/2007
AQS PM10 - DailyDaily01/01/199412/31/2003112149707/30/2004
CASTNet Dry Chemistry Weekly01/06/198703/23/2005 79329011/23/2005
CASTNet Visibility ChemistryDaily10/25/199312/27/200116695003/11/2004
GAViMDaily05/31/199401/07/200165366
IMPROVE Aerosol (Preliminary)Daily8/1/20062/26/2007 66049208/31/2007
IMPROVE Aerosol (Raw)Daily03/02/1988 7/31/2006 1080485208/31/2007
IMPROVE Coarse Mass Speciation StudyDaily03/01/200307/29/2003444
IMPROVE NephelometerHourly01/01/199306/30/20071383974410/09/2007
IMPROVE Aerosol (RHR1)Daily01/01/1988 12/31/2004 722063412/12/2005
IMPROVE Aerosol (RHR2) (New Algorithm)Daily01/01/1988 12/31/2005 4861358 03/09/2006
MOHAVEDaily01/10/199209/02/1992106484
NADP/AIRMoNWeekly09/23/199202/15/200428150506/04/2004
NADP/Mercury Deposition Network (MDN)Weekly11/22/199509/28/200410982003/30/2005
NADP/Nation Trends Network (NTN)Weekly07/05/197802/03/20044824603
Navaho Generating Station (NGS)Daily03/04/199205/30/199270104/02/2004
NPS SFU AerosolDaily07/27/197911/13/199385012603/02/2004
PREVENTDaily06/21/199009/03/199058547
REVEALDaily04/20/199406/17/1995961804/02/2004
SEARCH All VariablesDaily05/01/19983/31/200543865002/13/2006
SEARCH Best EstimateDaily05/01/19983/31/200515341602/13/2006
SEARCH FRMDaily05/01/19983/31/200515339202/13/2006
SEAVSDaily07/15/199508/25/19953564


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Parameters

[[DataSystemParam::The integrated VIEWS database contains data for over 250 air quality variables and parameters. These include surface observations, modeled parameters, and emissions data. For a complete list of the parameters maintained for each individual dataset, please visit the VIEWS Query Wizard and note the information on the "Select Parameters" tab as you select various datasets.

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Spatial - Temporal Coverage

[[DataSystemCoverage::Currently, the datasets in VIEWS are mostly relevant to the United States and neighboring countries such as Canada and Mexico. For complete information on the geographical coverage of the various datasets in VIEWS, please visit the VIEWS Network Browser, which is an online tool that displays maps of the monitoring sites for each network. Future plans include the addition of various international datasets and global satellite data.

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Applications/Potential


Health

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Forecasting and Reanalysis

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Model/Emissions Evaluation

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Characterization, Trends, Accountability

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Other

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Data System IT

Primary/Official Store for Some data

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Data Consolidation/integration

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Providing Data Access to users/externals

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Data Processing

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Visualization/Analysis

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Decision Support (e.g. some integration into user business process)

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End-to-End Integration

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Other DS Values

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Data Access and/or Output Interoperability

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Reusable Tools and Methods

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Security Barriers and Solutions

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User Feedback Approach

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Other Architecture

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User Provided Content