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== Notes from Breakout Sessions ==
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* [http://commons.esipfed.org/taxonomy/term/464#overlay-context=schedule/Winter%2520Meeting%25202013  Winter 2013 Meeting Schedule]
ESIP Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) and GEO Air Quality Community of Practice (AQCoP)
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* [[Air_Quality_Work_Group | Air Quality Work Group]]
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* [[GEO_AQ_CoP | GEO AQ CoP]]
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== Presentations and Notes from Breakout Sessions ==
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'''ESIP Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) and GEO Air Quality Community of Practice (AQCoP)'''<br>
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Session Facilitator: Ann Keane, NOAA<br>
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Session Notes: Greg Frost, CU/NOAA<br>
  
 
Thursday, January 10, 2013
 
Thursday, January 10, 2013
  
 
'''SESSION 1''' 8:30-10:00 GMT-5
 
'''SESSION 1''' 8:30-10:00 GMT-5
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(Also see notes at http://commons.esipfed.org/node/731)
  
 
'''SESSION 2''' 10:30-12:00 GMT-5
 
'''SESSION 2''' 10:30-12:00 GMT-5
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'''SESSION 1 PARTICIPANTS'''
 
'''SESSION 1 PARTICIPANTS'''
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''In-person'': Richard Eckman, Stefan Falke, Greg Frost, Rudy Husar, Ann Keane, Terry Keating, Chris Lynnes, Kelly Monteleone, Erin Robinson
 
''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
 
''Remote'': Jennifer Davis, Claire Granier, Praveen Noojipady, Martin Schultz, Uma Shankar, Wenli Yang
  
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'''SESSION 2 PARTICIPANTS'''
  
'''SESSION 2 PARTICIPANTS'''
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''In-person'': Richard Eckman, Stefan Falke, Greg Frost, Rudy Husar, Ann Keane, Terry Keating, Ken Keiser
''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
 
''Remote'': Zac Adelman, Sarav Arunachalam, Steve Keppler, Martin Schultz, Uma Shankar
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'''INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS'''
 
'''INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS'''
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=== '''Stefan Falke''' - [[media:Falke_Air_Quality_Working_Group_update.pdf | History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG]] ===
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'''Stefan Falke''': ''Overview of ESIP AQWG'' - link to Stefan PPT <br>
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**AQ Cluster has connected lots of data systems and programs, through efforts like DataFed
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**Need to figure out what’s still operational in this network
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**Timeline of AQ Cluster, AQWG, GEO AQCoP activity
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**ESIP Clusters meant to be short term. As interest and goals become longer term, AQ Cluster became AQWG
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**As AQWG, group involved with ESIP activities, governance, eligible for support, etc
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**Stefan ran logistics for AQWG during much of its history
  
'''Rudy Husar, Erin Robinson, Stefan Falke''' – ''Overview of AQWG and AQCoP ''
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=== '''Erin Robinson:''' The Role of ESIP ===
(See Falke and Husar presentation files)
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**ESIP AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping
 
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**ESIP AQWG loaded in AQ datasets, built interoperable systems, contributed to best practices collection
*Role of ESIP in AQCoP:
 
 
**Neutral space for coordination and interaction
 
**Neutral space for coordination and interaction
 
**Bringing together people at technical practitioner level  
 
**Bringing together people at technical practitioner level  
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**ESIP critical to AQCoP functions
 
**ESIP critical to AQCoP functions
  
*History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG, Connections to GEO AQCoP:
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=== '''Rudy Husar''': [[media:120108 ESIP GEO AQCOP.pptx | ‬Introduction to GEO AQ CoP]]===
AQ Cluster has connected lots of data systems and programs, through efforts like DataFed
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**AQCoP Regional Clusters for North America, Europe, India
Need to figure out what’s still operational in this network
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**ESIP wiki provides workspace for AQWG & AQCoP
Timeline of AQ Cluster, AQWG, GEO AQCoP activity
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**Tour of ESIP GEO AQCoP workspace
ESIP Clusters meant to be short term. As interest and goals become longer term, AQ Cluster became AQWG
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**Goal is an interoperable AQ Data Network (ADN)
As AQWG, group involved with ESIP activities, governance, eligible for support, etc
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**ADN Solta 2011 Meeting: connect the connectors to create a network
Stefan ran logistics for AQWG during much of its history
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**[[media:120108 ESIP AQ Data Network.pptx | AQ Data Network (ADN)]]
AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping
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**[[media:120108 ESIP DataFed.pptx | DataFed, a node of ADN]] - is an implementation of the GEOSS data sharing paradigm
AQWG loaded in AQ datasets, built interoperable systems, contributed to best practices collection
 
AQCoP Regional Clusters for North America, Europe, India
 
ESIP wiki provides workspace for AQWG & AQCoP
 
Goal is an interoperable AQ Data Network (ADN)
 
Tour of ESIP GEO AQCoP workspace
 
ADN Solta 2011 Meeting: connect the connectors to create a network
 
 
 
  
'''Martin Schultz''' – ''European Perspectives on AQCoP; JOIN''
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==='''Martin Schultz''' – ''[[media:Schultz_esip_20130110.pdf | European Perspectives on AQCoP; JOIN]]''===
 
(See Schultz presentation file)
 
(See Schultz presentation file)
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*AQCoP/ADN issues:
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**1st meeting - Solta
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**2nd meeting - Dublin
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** 3rd meeting - Mumbai
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**AQCoP mailing list – need to increase usage
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**Confusion on the European side about GEO AQCoP
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**Delineate better who is doing what, try to make that clear to EU folks
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**Continue series of workshops
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**Propose next workshop in Boulder this fall
  
1. AQCoP/ADN issues:
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*JOIN – Jülich OWS Interface
1st meeting - Solta
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**ECCAD data served up – example overlay ACCMP and PAN data from model
2nd meeting - Dublin
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**JOIN is ready for users as of week of January 7
AQCoP mailing list need to increase usage
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**Jülich test system still available until end of month
Confusion on the European side about GEO AQCoP
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**Next steps for JOIN:
Delineate better who is doing what, try to make that clear to EU folks
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***Restructuring and public release of core code can port to ECCAD, IAGOS groups, CIERA
Continue series of workshops
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**Support: MACC, IGAS (Toulouse IAGOS data), EPA, FZ Jülich, EU, HTAP
Propose next workshop in Boulder this fall
 
  
2. JOIN – Jülich OWS Interface
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*MACC requests of AQCoP (MACC = EU’s chemical forecasting effort):
ECCAD data served up – example overlay ACCMP and PAN data from model
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**Better user management
JOIN is ready for users as of last week
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**Direct linking to specific data sets and views
Jülich test system still available until end of month
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**Consolidate metadata profile and publish metadata records still working on best practice recommendations
Next steps for JOIN:
 
Restructuring and public release of core code preparing for public release of the code, can port to ECCAD, IAGOS groups, CIERA
 
Support: MACC, IGAS (Toulouse IAGOS data), EPA, FZ Jülich, EU, HTAP
 
  
3. MACC requests of AQCoP:
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*HTAP requests of AQCoP (HTAP = intercontinental pollutant transport model intercomparison exercise):
(MACC = EU’s chemical forecasting effort)
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**Geneva meeting in mid-March
Better user management
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**Linkage to met.no server (new HTAP archive)
Direct linking to specific data sets and views
+
**More model and data comparison tools
Consolidate metadata profile and publish metadata records – still working on best practice recommendations
 
  
4. 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
 
  
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==='''Claire Granier''' – ''ECCAD''===
  
'''Claire Granier''' ''ECCAD''
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*ECCAD portal = http://pole-ether.fr/eccad
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*ECCAD delivers emission inventories and ancillary data
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*Ether European Earth Science network
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*Links to Julich server
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*Making the data useful to a broad community, simple to use tools
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*Next steps:
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**Include more GHGs, toxics
  
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
 
  
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==='''Greg Frost''' – ''[[Media:ESIP AQBreakout Frost 10Jan2013.pptx|Emissions Data Needs, Issues, and Interoperability from the GEIA Perspective]]''===
  
'''Greg Frost''' – ''Emissions Data Needs, Issues, and Interoperability from the GEIA Perspective''
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*GEIA portal = http://www.geiacenter.org/
(See Frost presentation file)
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*Motivation for improving emissions data
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*Overview of GEIA’s mission and goals
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*Examples of GEIA activities, including ECCAD (http://pole-ether.fr/eccad) and CIERA (http://ciera-air.org/) portals
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*GEIA relies heavily on its partnership with AQCoP
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*Scientific and technical needs for improving access and analysis of emissions data
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*Suggest changing name of GEO AQCoP to “Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition CoP”
  
Motivation for improving emissions data
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==='''Uma Shankar''' – ''UNC/CMAS Efforts''===
Overview of GEIA’s mission and goals
 
Examples of GEIA activities, including ECCAD and CIERA 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)
 
(See Shankar presentation file)
  
Support EPA capabilities for regional chemical transport modeling and emissions
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*Support EPA capabilities for regional chemical transport modeling and emissions
Perspective and needs for delivering data to EPA and other US regulatory entities
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*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
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*Engage groups who provide various data sets for emission modeling (land cover, etc) in AQCoP
 
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**Data are distributed all over the place, but not connected right now
CMAS carries out its efforts through work assignments
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*CMAS carries out its efforts through work assignments
 
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*Modeling platforms from OAQPS and what’s being done in ORD are not well connected
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''
 
 
 
1. Bringing satellite data into AirNow
 
 
 
2. 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
 
  
3. North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation
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*Emission Modeling Framework database Zac Adelman, Uma
Climate Information System
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**EPA’s data could be made available through this database
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
 
  
4. AQCoP Governance
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*Recommends not duplicating efforts, and keeping CMAS involved, especially due to limited resources on US side
Wiki discussion initiated
 
Recommend defining co-chairs, secretariat, steering body
 
  
  
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==='''Terry Keating''' – ''[[ media:130110_Keating_EPA_comments.pdf | Issues of interest to AQWG/AQCoP ]]''===
  
'''GROUP DISCUSSION'''
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*Bringing satellite data into AirNow
  
''1. Name of AQCoP''
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*HTAP
Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name
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**Example of why we need a GEOSS
Need to let GEO know about this change
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**Next meeting in Geneva, March 18-22, in conjunction with WMO’s 2013 conference
Alert ESIP?
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**Details at http://www.htap.org/
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**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
  
''2. AQ Governance''
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*AQCoP Governance
Telecon to formalize the governance - Beginning of February?
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**Wiki discussion initiated
Need some governance in place before we call another meeting of the CoP
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**Recommend defining co-chairs, secretariat, steering body
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
 
  
  
  
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==GROUP DISCUSSION==
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===Name of AQCoP===
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*Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name
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*Need to let GEO know about this change
 +
*Alert ESIP?
 +
===AQCoP Governance===
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*Possible telecon to formalize the governance - early February?
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*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 ==
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== Proposed Agenda - Ann Keane & Community ==
  
== January 10 8:30-10:00 GMT-5 ==
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=== Session1: January 10 8:30-10:00 GMT-5 ===
 
* Introduction to the GEO AQ CoP - Rudy Husar
 
* Introduction to the GEO AQ CoP - Rudy Husar
  
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* what is needed for future development
 
* what is needed for future development
  
== January 10 10:30-12:00 GMT-5 ==
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=== Session2: January 10 10:30-12:00 GMT-5 ===
  
 
This session will cover issues raised in the first session.  Some potential topics:
 
This session will cover issues raised in the first session.  Some potential topics:
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working and what work needs to be done to meet the broader scientific priorities.
 
working and what work needs to be done to meet the broader scientific priorities.
  
[[category:AQ_CoP]]
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[[category:AQWG]]

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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


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 GranierECCAD

  • 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 FrostEmissions 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 ShankarUNC/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
  • 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.