Difference between revisions of "Air Quality Breakout, ESIP 2013 Winter Meeting"
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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*History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG, Connections to GEO AQCoP: | *History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG, Connections to GEO AQCoP: | ||
− | AQ Cluster has connected lots of data systems and programs, through efforts like DataFed | + | **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 | + | **Need to figure out what’s still operational in this network |
− | Timeline of AQ Cluster, AQWG, GEO AQCoP activity | + | **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 | + | **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 | + | **As AQWG, group involved with ESIP activities, governance, eligible for support, etc |
− | Stefan ran logistics for AQWG during much of its history | + | **Stefan ran logistics for AQWG during much of its history |
− | AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping | + | **AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping |
− | AQWG loaded in AQ datasets, built interoperable systems, contributed to best practices collection | + | **AQWG loaded in AQ datasets, built interoperable systems, contributed to best practices collection |
− | AQCoP Regional Clusters for North America, Europe, India | + | **AQCoP Regional Clusters for North America, Europe, India |
− | ESIP wiki provides workspace for AQWG & AQCoP | + | **ESIP wiki provides workspace for AQWG & AQCoP |
− | Goal is an interoperable AQ Data Network (ADN) | + | **Goal is an interoperable AQ Data Network (ADN) |
− | Tour of ESIP GEO AQCoP workspace | + | **Tour of ESIP GEO AQCoP workspace |
− | ADN Solta 2011 Meeting: connect the connectors to create a network | + | **ADN Solta 2011 Meeting: connect the connectors to create a network |
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(See Schultz presentation file) | (See Schultz presentation file) | ||
− | + | *AQCoP/ADN issues: | |
− | 1st meeting - Solta | + | **1st meeting - Solta |
− | 2nd meeting - Dublin | + | **2nd meeting - Dublin |
− | AQCoP mailing list – need to increase usage | + | **AQCoP mailing list – need to increase usage |
− | Confusion on the European side about GEO AQCoP | + | **Confusion on the European side about GEO AQCoP |
− | Delineate better who is doing what, try to make that clear to EU folks | + | **Delineate better who is doing what, try to make that clear to EU folks |
− | Continue series of workshops | + | **Continue series of workshops |
− | Propose next workshop in Boulder this fall | + | **Propose next workshop in Boulder this fall |
− | + | *JOIN – Jülich OWS Interface | |
− | ECCAD data served up – example overlay ACCMP and PAN data from model | + | **ECCAD data served up – example overlay ACCMP and PAN data from model |
− | JOIN is ready for users as of | + | **JOIN is ready for users as of week of January 7 |
− | Jülich test system still available until end of month | + | **Jülich test system still available until end of month |
− | Next steps for JOIN: | + | **Next steps for JOIN: |
− | Restructuring and public release of core code – | + | ***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 | + | **Support: MACC, IGAS (Toulouse IAGOS data), EPA, FZ Jülich, EU, HTAP |
− | + | *MACC requests of AQCoP (MACC = EU’s chemical forecasting effort): | |
− | (MACC = EU’s chemical forecasting effort) | + | **Better user management |
− | Better user management | + | **Direct linking to specific data sets and views |
− | Direct linking to specific data sets and views | + | **Consolidate metadata profile and publish metadata records – still working on best practice recommendations |
− | Consolidate metadata profile and publish metadata records – still working on best practice recommendations | ||
− | + | *HTAP requests of AQCoP (HTAP = intercontinental pollutant transport model intercomparison exercise): | |
− | (HTAP = intercontinental pollutant transport model intercomparison exercise) | + | **Geneva meeting in mid-March |
− | Geneva meeting in mid-March | + | **Linkage to met.no server (new HTAP archive) |
− | Linkage to met.no server (new HTAP archive) | + | **More model and data comparison tools |
− | More model and data comparison tools | ||
'''Claire Granier''' – ''ECCAD'' | '''Claire Granier''' – ''ECCAD'' | ||
− | ECCAD delivers emission inventories and ancillary data | + | *ECCAD delivers emission inventories and ancillary data |
− | Ether – European Earth Science network | + | *Ether – European Earth Science network |
− | Links to Julich server | + | *Links to Julich server |
− | Making the data useful to a broad community, simple to use tools | + | *Making the data useful to a broad community, simple to use tools |
− | Next steps: Include more GHGs, toxics | + | *Next steps: |
+ | **Include more GHGs, toxics | ||
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(See Frost presentation file) | (See Frost presentation file) | ||
− | Motivation for improving emissions data | + | *Motivation for improving emissions data |
− | Overview of GEIA’s mission and goals | + | *Overview of GEIA’s mission and goals |
− | Examples of GEIA activities, including ECCAD and CIERA portals | + | *Examples of GEIA activities, including ECCAD and CIERA portals |
− | GEIA relies heavily on its partnership with AQCoP | + | *GEIA relies heavily on its partnership with AQCoP |
− | Scientific and technical needs for improving access and analysis of emissions data | + | *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” | + | *Suggest changing name of GEO AQCoP to “Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition CoP” |
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(See Shankar presentation file) | (See Shankar presentation file) | ||
− | Support EPA capabilities for regional chemical transport modeling and emissions | + | *Support EPA capabilities for regional chemical transport modeling and emissions |
− | Perspective and needs for delivering data to EPA and other US regulatory entities | + | *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 | + | *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 | + | *CMAS carries out its efforts through work assignments |
+ | *Modeling platforms from OAQPS and what’s being done in ORD are not well connected | ||
− | Modeling | + | *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 | |
− | |||
− | Recommends not duplicating efforts, and keeping CMAS involved, especially due to limited resources on US side | ||
'''Terry Keating''' – ''Issues of interest to AQWG/AQCoP'' | '''Terry Keating''' – ''Issues of interest to AQWG/AQCoP'' | ||
− | + | *Bringing satellite data into AirNow | |
− | + | *HTAP | |
− | Example of why we need a GEOSS | + | **Example of why we need a GEOSS |
− | Next meeting in Geneva, March 18-22, in conjunction with WMO’s 2013 conference | + | **Next meeting in Geneva, March 18-22, in conjunction with WMO’s 2013 conference |
− | Details at http://www.htap.org/ | + | **Details at http://www.htap.org/ |
− | Objectives: | + | **Objectives: |
− | Establish science, evaluations, analyses to be done in HTAP | + | ***Establish science, evaluations, analyses to be done in HTAP |
− | Status of information infrastructure that’s been created for HTAP | + | ***Status of information infrastructure that’s been created for HTAP |
− | Could expand Martin Schultz group’s system built for HTAP Phase 1 | + | **Could expand Martin Schultz group’s system built for HTAP Phase 1 |
− | Modeling resources: | + | **Modeling resources: |
− | Data at Julich and met.no (AeroCom) | + | ***Data at Julich and met.no (AeroCom) |
− | Ensemble system at JRC | + | ***Ensemble system at JRC |
− | Atmospheric Brown Cloud Asia | + | ***Atmospheric Brown Cloud Asia |
− | MICS Asia (Tokyo, China) – Asian modeling | + | ***MICS Asia (Tokyo, China) – Asian modeling |
− | RSIG – regional modeling exercises | + | ***RSIG – regional modeling exercises |
− | Observations: | + | **Observations: |
− | Surface – NILU (EBAS) | + | ***Surface – NILU (EBAS) |
− | Aircraft – ATOM (NASA Langley) | + | ***Aircraft – ATOM (NASA Langley) |
− | Satellite – NASA GIOVANNI, Atmos Comp Portal | + | ***Satellite – NASA GIOVANNI, Atmos Comp Portal |
− | Emissions: | + | **Emissions: |
− | GEIA/CIERA – one platform to deliver HTAP 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 | + | ***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 | + | **Development of analysis tools that draw on these databases |
− | Some work at DataFed, MACC to develop tools: this effort could be expanded | + | **Some work at DataFed, MACC to develop tools: this effort could be expanded |
− | + | *North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation Climate Information System | |
− | Climate Information System | + | **CEC involves US, Canada, Mexico |
− | CEC had a scoping project about this – decided to focus on emissions | + | **CEC had a scoping project about this – decided to focus on emissions |
− | 3 countries working on online database of GHG and BC emissions | + | ***identified need for web services approach to delivering these data |
− | Proposals due next week, select contractor by end of January, work done by end of July | + | **3 countries working on online database of GHG and BC emissions |
− | Tri-national national-level database focused on GHGs, BC, and related emissions | + | **Proposals due next week, select contractor by end of January, work done by end of July |
− | Terry will connect contractor to AQCoP | + | **Tri-national national-level database focused on GHGs, BC, and related emissions |
+ | **Terry will connect contractor to AQCoP | ||
− | + | *AQCoP Governance | |
− | Wiki discussion initiated | + | **Wiki discussion initiated |
− | Recommend defining co-chairs, secretariat, steering body | + | **Recommend defining co-chairs, secretariat, steering body |
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''1. Name of AQCoP'' | ''1. Name of AQCoP'' | ||
− | Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name | + | *Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name |
− | Need to let GEO know about this change | + | *Need to let GEO know about this change |
− | Alert ESIP? | + | *Alert ESIP? |
''2. AQ Governance'' | ''2. AQ Governance'' | ||
− | Telecon to formalize the governance - Beginning of February? | + | *Telecon to formalize the governance - Beginning of February? |
− | Need some governance in place before we call another meeting of the CoP | + | *Need some governance in place before we call another meeting of the CoP |
− | In addition to “top-down” structure, need “bottom up” governance | + | *In addition to “top-down” structure, need “bottom up” governance |
− | Need technical committee to deal with network issues: data catalog, metadata… | + | *Need technical committee to deal with network issues: data catalog, metadata… |
− | Perhaps defining these tasks as working groups? | + | *Perhaps defining these tasks as working groups? |
− | High-level umbrella steering group necessary for strategic planning and to secure resources | + | *High-level umbrella steering group necessary for strategic planning and to secure resources |
− | Need improved forum for communication and coordination | + | *Need improved forum for communication and coordination |
− | Suggestion to nominate 2 interim chairs or conveners to help organize meetings and coordinate efforts | + | *Suggestion to nominate 2 interim chairs or conveners to help organize meetings and coordinate efforts |
Revision as of 14:35, January 16, 2013
Winter 2013 Meeting Schedule | < Back to the AQ Workspace
Notes from Breakout Sessions
ESIP Air Quality Working Group (AQWG) and GEO Air Quality Community of Practice (AQCoP)
Thursday, January 10, 2013
SESSION 1 8:30-10:00 GMT-5
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
Rudy Husar, Erin Robinson, Stefan Falke – Overview of AQWG and AQCoP (See Falke and Husar presentation files)
- Role of ESIP in AQCoP:
- 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
- History and Work of ESIP AQ Cluster/WG, Connections to GEO AQCoP:
- 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
- AQWG presented themselves to GEOSS as self-organized grouping
- 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
(See Schultz presentation file)
- AQCoP/ADN issues:
- 1st meeting - Solta
- 2nd meeting - Dublin
- 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 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
(See Frost presentation file)
- Motivation for improving emissions data
- 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)
- 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
- Modeling resources:
- Observations:
- Surface – NILU (EBAS)
- Aircraft – ATOM (NASA Langley)
- Satellite – NASA GIOVANNI, Atmos Comp Portal
- Observations:
- 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
- Emissions:
- 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
1. Name of AQCoP
- Recommend that we include “Atmospheric Composition” in name
- Need to let GEO know about this change
- Alert ESIP?
2. AQ Governance
- Telecon to formalize the governance - Beginning of February?
- Need some governance in place before we call another meeting of the CoP
- 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
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
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.