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GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot: Air Quality Scenario Development

(This page is currently a template provided by GEOSS-OGC that will be completed. )

If you have a position paper on this session either send your position paper to George Percivall and it will be posted and linked to this Workshop Session or add a comment on this page below and include a link to your paper.

Summary

• Provide a summary of the scenario and the community that the scenario supports.

Wildfire events can cause extraordinary damage to public and private property along with serious health effects to emergency personnel and the general public. Smoke from wildfires is a mixture of gases and fine particles from burning vegetation and man-made structures. Smoke can harm the eyes, irritate the respiratory system, and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases. Smoke events can occur anywhere and affect any community.

During such events local officials and decision-makers must be provided with the information and data they need to adequately communicate health risks and precautions to the public. To properly respond and issue guidance, decision-makers need straight-forward access to information. Such information includes air quality monitoring and forecast information, meteorological, satellite, and geographical data.

• Identify the specific decisions to be made.
  • Identify existing data sources (air quality networks, meteorological (current observations and forecasted), applicable satellite measurements, geographical context)
  • What, When, and Where to monitor pollutants (depending upon existing air quality network surrounding the wildfire event)
  • Understanding of forecasts (air quality and meteorology)
  • Understanding of Public Health Action Levels during an emergency
  • Issuing Public Advisories

• Provide references for additional information.

Rudy documents…. ( I can provide some related documents that STI has helped put together (Using Aerosol Optical Depth Products as Forecasting Tools, Air Quality Forecasting Guidance Document, etc. if needed?)

Context and pre-conditions

• Identify the actors in the scenario. Actors are any persons involved in the scenario.
• List, at a summary level, the specific information assumed to be available before the scenario begins.
• List, at a summary level, the specific processing and collaboration functionality assumed needed in the scenario.

Scenario Events

• The scenario should be elaborated as a set of steps that result in the creation of decision support products developed in collaboration by the actors.
• Use the table to identify the main sequence of events in the scenario. In the course of the scenario you may identify an alternative branch step that could be taken, but then return to the main sequence steps.

GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot: Template

(This page is currently a template provided by GEOSS-OGC that will be completed. )

If you have a position paper on this session either send your position paper to George Percivall and it will be posted and linked to this Workshop Session or add a comment on this page below and include a link to your paper.

Summary

• Provide a summary of the scenario and the community that the scenario supports.
• Identify the specific decisions to be made.
• Provide references for additional information.

Context and pre-conditions

• Identify the actors in the scenario. Actors are any persons involved in the scenario.
• List, at a summary level, the specific information assumed to be available before the scenario begins.
• List, at a summary level, the specific processing and collaboration functionality assumed needed in the scenario.

Scenario Events

• The scenario should be elaborated as a set of steps that result in the creation of decision support products developed in collaboration by the actors.
• Use the table to identify the main sequence of events in the scenario. In the course of the scenario you may identify an alternative branch step that could be taken, but then return to the main sequence steps.

See Also: Scenario Development Process

GEOSS AIP Scenario Examples