Air Quality Breakout, ESIP 2013 Winter Meeting

• Winter 2013 Meeting Schedule
• Air Quality Work Group
• GEO AQ CoP

Presentations and Notes from Breakout Sessions

ESIP Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) and GEO Air Quality Community of Practice (AQCoP)
Session Facilitator: Ann Keane, NOAA
Session Notes: Greg Frost, CU/NOAA

Thursday, January 10, 2013

SESSION 1 8:30-10:00 GMT-5 (Also see notes at http://commons.esipfed.org/node/731)

SESSION 2 10:30-12:00 GMT-5

SESSION LEAD: Ann Keane (NOAA)

SESSION 1 PARTICIPANTS

In-person: Richard Eckman, Stefan Falke, Greg Frost, Rudy Husar, Ann Keane, Terry Keating, Chris Lynnes, Kelly Monteleone, Erin Robinson

Remote: Jennifer Davis, Claire Granier, Praveen Noojipady, Martin Schultz, Uma Shankar, Wenli Yang

SESSION 2 PARTICIPANTS

In-person: Richard Eckman, Stefan Falke, Greg Frost, Rudy Husar, Ann Keane, Terry Keating, Ken Keiser

Remote: Zac Adelman, Sarav Arunachalam, Steve Keppler, Martin Schultz, Uma Shankar

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS

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Stefan Falke - History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG

Stefan Falke: Overview of ESIP AQWG - link to Stefan PPT

• • AQ Cluster has connected lots of data systems and programs, through efforts like DataFed
  • Need to figure out what’s still operational in this network
  • Timeline of AQ Cluster, AQWG, GEO AQCoP activity
  • ESIP Clusters meant to be short term. As interest and goals become longer term, AQ Cluster became AQWG
  • As AQWG, group involved with ESIP activities, governance, eligible for support, etc
  • Stefan ran logistics for AQWG during much of its history

Erin Robinson: The Role of ESIP

• • ESIP AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping
  • ESIP AQWG loaded in AQ datasets, built interoperable systems, contributed to best practices collection
  • Neutral space for coordination and interaction
  • Bringing together people at technical practitioner level
  • Support technical infrastructure for science applications
  • Provide virtual interaction as well as human interaction
  • ESIP critical to AQCoP functions

Rudy Husar: ‬Introduction to GEO AQ CoP

• • AQCoP Regional Clusters for North America, Europe, India
  • ESIP wiki provides workspace for AQWG & AQCoP
  • Tour of ESIP GEO AQCoP workspace
  • Goal is an interoperable AQ Data Network (ADN)
  • ADN Solta 2011 Meeting: connect the connectors to create a network
  • AQ Data Network (ADN)
  • DataFed, a node of ADN - is an implementation of the GEOSS data sharing paradigm

Martin Schultz – European Perspectives on AQCoP; JOIN

(See Schultz presentation file)

• AQCoP/ADN issues:
  • 1st meeting - Solta
  • 2nd meeting - Dublin
  • 3rd meeting - Mumbai
  • AQCoP mailing list – need to increase usage
  • Confusion on the European side about GEO AQCoP
  • Delineate better who is doing what, try to make that clear to EU folks
  • Continue series of workshops
  • Propose next workshop in Boulder this fall

• JOIN – Jülich OWS Interface
  • ECCAD data served up – example overlay ACCMP and PAN data from model
  • JOIN is ready for users as of week of January 7
  • Jülich test system still available until end of month
  • Next steps for JOIN:
    • Restructuring and public release of core code – can port to ECCAD, IAGOS groups, CIERA
  • Support: MACC, IGAS (Toulouse IAGOS data), EPA, FZ Jülich, EU, HTAP

• MACC requests of AQCoP (MACC = EU’s chemical forecasting effort):
  • Better user management
  • Direct linking to specific data sets and views
  • Consolidate metadata profile and publish metadata records – still working on best practice recommendations

• HTAP requests of AQCoP (HTAP = intercontinental pollutant transport model intercomparison exercise):
  • Geneva meeting in mid-March
  • Linkage to met.no server (new HTAP archive)
  • More model and data comparison tools

Claire Granier – ECCAD

• ECCAD portal = http://pole-ether.fr/eccad
• ECCAD delivers emission inventories and ancillary data
• Ether – European Earth Science network
• Links to Julich server
• Making the data useful to a broad community, simple to use tools
• Next steps:
  • Include more GHGs, toxics

Greg Frost – Emissions Data Needs, Issues, and Interoperability from the GEIA Perspective

• GEIA portal = http://www.geiacenter.org/
• Motivation for improving emissions data
• Overview of GEIA’s mission and goals
• Examples of GEIA activities, including ECCAD (http://pole-ether.fr/eccad) and CIERA (http://ciera-air.org/) portals
• GEIA relies heavily on its partnership with AQCoP
• Scientific and technical needs for improving access and analysis of emissions data
• Suggest changing name of GEO AQCoP to “Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition CoP”

Uma Shankar – UNC/CMAS Efforts

(See Shankar presentation file)

• Support EPA capabilities for regional chemical transport modeling and emissions
• Perspective and needs for delivering data to EPA and other US regulatory entities
• Engage groups who provide various data sets for emission modeling (land cover, etc) in AQCoP
  • Data are distributed all over the place, but not connected right now
• CMAS carries out its efforts through work assignments
• Modeling platforms from OAQPS and what’s being done in ORD are not well connected

• Emission Modeling Framework database – Zac Adelman, Uma
  • EPA’s data could be made available through this database

• Recommends not duplicating efforts, and keeping CMAS involved, especially due to limited resources on US side

Terry Keating – Issues of interest to AQWG/AQCoP

• Bringing satellite data into AirNow

• HTAP
  • Example of why we need a GEOSS
  • Next meeting in Geneva, March 18-22, in conjunction with WMO’s 2013 conference
  • Details at http://www.htap.org/
  • Objectives:
    • Establish science, evaluations, analyses to be done in HTAP
    • Status of information infrastructure that’s been created for HTAP
  • Could expand Martin Schultz group’s system built for HTAP Phase 1
  • Modeling resources:
    • Data at Julich and met.no (AeroCom)
    • Ensemble system at JRC
    • Atmospheric Brown Cloud Asia
    • MICS Asia (Tokyo, China) – Asian modeling
    • RSIG – regional modeling exercises
  • Observations:
    • Surface – NILU (EBAS)
    • Aircraft – ATOM (NASA Langley)
    • Satellite – NASA GIOVANNI, Atmos Comp Portal
  • Emissions:
    • GEIA/CIERA – one platform to deliver HTAP emissions
    • ECCAD – another platform to deliver HTAP emissions; in process of modifying to accept information at higher resolution
  • Development of analysis tools that draw on these databases
    • Some work at DataFed, MACC to develop tools: this effort could be expanded

• North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation Climate Information System
  • CEC involves US, Canada, Mexico
  • CEC had a scoping project about this – decided to focus on emissions
    • identified need for web services approach to delivering these data
  • 3 countries working on online database of GHG and BC emissions
  • Proposals due next week, select contractor by end of January, work done by end of July
  • Tri-national national-level database focused on GHGs, BC, and related emissions
  • Terry will connect contractor to AQCoP

• AQCoP Governance
  • Wiki discussion initiated
  • Recommend defining co-chairs, secretariat, steering body

GROUP DISCUSSION

Name of AQCoP

• Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name
• Need to let GEO know about this change
• Alert ESIP?

AQCoP Governance

• Possible telecon to formalize the governance - early February?
• Need some governance in place before we call another meeting of the AQCoP
• In addition to “top-down” structure, need “bottom up” governance
• Need technical committee to deal with network issues: data catalog, metadata…
• Perhaps defining these tasks as working groups?
• High-level umbrella steering group necessary for strategic planning and to secure resources
• Need improved forum for communication and coordination
• Suggestion to nominate 2 interim chairs or conveners to help organize meetings and coordinate efforts

Proposed Agenda - Ann Keane & Community

Session1: January 10 8:30-10:00 GMT-5

• Introduction to the GEO AQ CoP - Rudy Husar

• 10 minute presentations on the current state of data services and data needs from
  • Juelich - Martin Schultz
  • DataFed - Rudy Husar
  • ECCAD - Claire Granier
  • NILU
  • NOAA - Ann Keane, WCS
  • GEO AQ Data Network: Servers and Clients on the Network; Catalog; Client-Server Data Flow - Rudy Husar
  • NOAA/Greg Frost
  • EPA/Terry Keating
  • UNC/Uma Shankar

• Discussion of CoP Governance and issues raised during the session. To be continued in the second session.

Some of topics to cover might be:

• what data is provided
• what technologies are used
• who is using the data for what
• what difficulties have you encountered
• what is needed for future development

Session2: January 10 10:30-12:00 GMT-5

This session will cover issues raised in the first session. Some potential topics:

• Issues faced by modelers in accessing data services.
• Issues of accessing data services
• Issues of publishing data services
• Existing metadata standards and conventions
• Use cases for the existing services
• Discussion of technologies for access to large data for various types of post-processing web services. The IRODS group may be presenting at ESIP as well.
• How to proceed with metadata data developments started in Dublin.
• Discussion of the next versions of WCS and DAP.
• Data conventions for distributing point data.
• Data catalog registration and search access. Does AQCoP need a faceted search i.e. [1]?

The goal of these two sessions will be to gain a better understanding of how the community is working and what work needs to be done to meet the broader scientific priorities.