Air Quality Break-out, ESIP 2010 Summer Meeting

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The Air Quality Workgroup will be meeting on Wednesday and Thursday during the ESIP Summer Meeting.

WebEx and dial-in will be available for remote participation. Details will be posted here prior to the meeting.

July 21, Wednesday

1:15-2:45

• Welcome, Introduction and Overview (5-minutes)

• 20-minute presentations from new projects
  • CyAir - Cyberinfrastructure for Air Quality Management

• 5-minute Networking updates from ongoing projects
  • GEOSS AIP-3
  • CEOS AC Portal
  • Giovanni
  • RSIG
  • AIRNow
  • HTAP Network
  • DataFed

• • others (please add to this list)
• what is the state of the network connection Connectivity Matrix
  • Highlight nodes that are red that are high priority and aren't connected (outcome - critical systems need to be networked)

• Community Topics (5 min each)
  • GEO AQ CoP
    • AQ Earth Observation Requirements
    • User Requirements Registry Update
  • AQ GEOSS Community Infrastructure

• • Using ISO metadata to catalog and find resources

(scheduled break from 2:45-3:15)

3:15-4:45

Discussion Focus Areas (20min each)

• Institutional and human factors challenges and opportunities in interoperability

• Interoperability successes among projects and use/planned use of GEOSS AQ Community Infrastructure
  • Lessons learned and guidance that can be formulated for others to use in their implementations
  • Challenges and new approaches to implementing interoperability
  • Define next steps for interoperability testing among projects
  • update interoperability matrix

• Virtual AQ Interoperability Standards Implementation Workshops: making them work for you

• CyAir Reflections: Given discussion above: What does this mean for CyAir?

July 22, Thursday

11:00-12:00

• Outline next Interoperability Standards Implementation 'Virtual Workshops'
• Define goals, scope and logistics for face-to-face/virtual AQ Interoperability Standards Implementation Workshop

• Plans for GEO-VI Plenary Air Quality 'Showcase'

Ideas and Suggestions for Summer Meeting

• Entire should be virtual - expect that more than half of participants might be remote.
• Potential collaboration with the Tech workshops from Tuesday
• Describe HTAP Network, ACP, other AQ projects by the way that they leverage AQ Community Infrastructure

1. identifying and begin registering the emerging air quality data-as-services from the various projects e.g. (HTAP network; Atmp Comp Network, CyAir)
2. using the ISO metadata for cataloging, discovery and finding the shared data resources
3. agree on a few practical use cases for demonstrating interoperability and networking

We could also begin work on the

• convention for metadata for understanding the observations (surface, satellite, model, emission...)
• distributing the shared tools and methods (server, client, registration...)

A particular topic that would help GEOSS is a participatory discussion/feedback on the User Requirements Registry for air quality. A possible way to approach this is to ask the project representatives to identify their respective user requirements. I can provide more later..