Air Quality Focus Group Discussion Summary

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Air Quality Focus Group Discussion Summary

• ESIP Winter Meeting
• January 2005

• Air Quality is one of 12 Applications of National
  Priority as defined by NASA
• and is one of 5 National Application Areas most
  frequently selected in Tom Yuncks pre-meeting
  questionnaire
• Air quality management involves multiple
  government agencies, businesses, and universities
  and provides an application area well suited for
  making use of ESIPs infrastructure and
  resources.
• About 20 participants attended the focus group

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Air Quality Focus Group Discussion Topics

• A) How are satellite data currently used in air
  quality research and management?
• a) how is the data used
• b) what satellite data are used
• c) who are the data users
• B) How to enhance the relevance of satellite data
  for air quality decision making?
• a) what do EPA and other air quality
  organizations need
• b) what can ESIP offer

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AQ Management Sensory-Motor System
Monitoring collects multi-sensory data from
surface and satellite platforms and
Monitoring (Sensing)
AssessmentCompare to GoalsPlan ReductionsTrack
Progress
Set Goals NAAQS
Set Policy CAAA
AirQuality
Controls (Actions)
Assessment turns data into knowledge for decision
making actions through analysis (science
engineering)

NASA ESE data, tools and methods can benefit air
quality (AQ) management through extended
monitoring, data sharing tools and better
science.
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Air Quality Data Use(EPA Ambient Air Monitoring
Strategy, 2004)
AQ Management Activity Satellite Use (Part. Matter) ESIP
Informing the public Informative AQ Images
NAAQS (Nat. Amb AQ Std) development Criteria Document
NAAQS compliance
Tracking progress (trends)
Strategy dev. (SIPs), model evaluation Intercontinental transport
Science support (atmospheric processes) Natural dust smoke, AQ Forecasting
Ecosystem assessment
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Information Refinery Value Chain (Taylor, 1975)
Info. Quality
Information
Informing Knowledge
Action
Productive Knowledge
Data
Analyzing Separating Evaluating Interpreting
Synthesizing
Judging Options Quality Advantages
Disadvantages
Deciding Matching goals Compromising Bargaining
Deciding
Organizing Grouping Classifying Formatting
Displaying
Transform. Processes
e.g. WG Reports
e.g. Langley IDEA, FASTNET, Forecast Modeling
e.g. RPO Manager
Examples
e.g. DAAC
ESIP Facilitation
States, EPA, International
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Next Steps

• Form ESIP AQ Cluster to explore ideas identify
  relevant ESIP resources
• What types of air quality applications can ESIP
  support
• Work up example applications
• Prepare material for proposal
• Organize a meeting/workshop with EPA/NASA/NOAA
• Understand their current efforts and information
  flow processes
• Identify specific areas of interest
• Develop a demo/testbed

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Participants