NO2 Workshop

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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.

Date:

• October 31 and November 1

Location:

• Washington, DC
• EPA HQ, Federal Triangle

Participants:

• Participant List

Working Agenda:
Possible Agenda Items for workshop:

October 31
8:30-9:00 Workshop overview with expected outcomes
9:00-10:30 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)

10:30-12:00 Feedback on prototypes from the perspective of:

• Data product and sensor/monitor scientists
• Information technology developers and mediators
• Air quality researchers and managers

1:00-5:00 How to improve future AQ applications using satellite and surface data

• how to establish connections among data/algorithm producers, data providers, web infrastructure mediators, and end users.
• clarify appropriate application and interpretation of the NO2 products
• define key assumptions, restrictions, caveats, etc. that need to be captured along with data (e.g., data lineage)
• identify gaps between what is currently provided and what is needed
• determine what can be done by each group (data producers, IT developers, and AQ researchers/managers) to create a network for building better applications.
• Challenges/obstacles scientists are facing in understanding NO2 data

November 1
8:30-10:30 How to improve future AQ applications using satellite and surface data

• how to establish connections among data/algorithm producers, data providers, web infrastructure mediators, and end users.
• clarify appropriate application and interpretation of the NO2 products
• define key assumptions, restrictions, caveats, etc. that need to be captured along with data (e.g., data lineage)
• identify gaps between what is currently provided and what is needed
• determine what can be done by each group (data producers, IT developers, and AQ researchers/managers) to create a network for building better applications.
• Challenges/obstacles scientists are facing in understanding NO2 data

10:30-12:30 Next steps in developing networked elements and applications

• How can we leverage the NO2 work as a pathfinder to accelerate our collective capacity to use data from new platforms such as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) targeted for launch in 2008 or NPOESS?

Suggested invitees from the satellite/surface data producer side:

• Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
• Martin Randall (Dalhousie University)
• Greg Frost (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
• Ken Pickering (NASA-GSFC)
• Jim Gleason (NASA-GSFC)
• Ernie Hilsenrath (NASA-GSFC)
• Mike Koerber (Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium)
• Rich Poirot (State of Vermont Air Pollution Control Division)
• CEOS representative

Suggested invitees from EPA:

• Alice Gilliland
• Rob Pinder