Welcome to the 9th Semiannual Meeting of the NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team!

Saint Louis University, June 2-4, 2015

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Meeting goals:1. To exchange information on Earth Science resources for air quality and on

air quality management needs;2. To direct AQAST activities to address AQ management needs.

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A quick overview of the agenda

Day 1: Tuesday June 2 - AQAST overview- Air quality science and applications session- Midwest air quality management session- Group photo- Forest Park ozone garden and reception at Planetarium

Day 2: Wednesday June 3- Air quality science and applications sessions- Poster session

Day 3: Thursday June 4- AQAST activities in support of TEMPO- Tiger Team breakouts- AQAST action items

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19 team members appointed in May 2011 for 5-year terms

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AQAST members

• Daniel Jacob (leader), Loretta Mickley (Harvard)• Tracey Holloway (deputy leader), Steve Ackerman (U. Wisconsin); Bart Sponseller (Wisconsin DNR)• Greg Carmichael (U. Iowa)• Dan Cohan (Rice U.)• Russ Dickerson (U. Maryland)• Bryan Duncan, Yasuko Yoshida, Melanie Follette-Cook (NASA/GSFC); Jennifer Olson (NASA/LaRC)• David Edwards (NCAR) • Arlene Fiore (Columbia Univ.); Meiyun Lin (Princeton)• Jack Fishman, Ben de Foy (Saint Louis U.)• Daven Henze, Jana Milford (U. Colorado)• Edward Hyer, Jeff Reid, Doug Westphal, Kim Richardson (NRL)• Pius Lee, Tianfeng Chai (NOAA/NESDIS)• Yang Liu, Matthew Strickland (Emory U.), Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)• Richard McNider, Arastoo Biazar (U. Alabama – Huntsville)• Brad Pierce (NOAA/NESDIS)• Ted Russell, Yongtao Hu, Talat Odman (Georgia Tech); Lorraine Remer (NASA/GSFC)• David Streets (Argonne)• Jim Szykman (EPA/ORD/NERL)• Anne Thompson, William Ryan, Suellen Haupt (Penn State U.)

What makes AQAST unique?

All AQAST projects connect Earth Science and air quality management Involve active partnerships with air quality managers, have deliverable

application outcomesExpand relationships through meetings, online tools, newsletters, surveys

AQAST has flexibility in how it allocates its resources Members adjust work plans to meet evolving air quality needs Multi-member “Tiger Teams” are organized each year in consultation with air

quality management community to address pressing problems requiring coordinated activity

AQAST is self-organizing and can respond quickly to demands

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Year 4 Tiger Teams1. Web-enabled tools for air quality management decision support (Szykman, Spak) with EPA, Iowa DNR, San Joaquin Valley APCD

2. Source contributions to O3 and PM2.5 pollution episodes across Eastern US (Holloway, Fiore) with LADCO, Wisconsin DNR, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, MDE, TCEQ

3. Dynamic inputs of Natural Conditions for Air Quality Models (DYNAMO) (Cohan) with EPA, TCEQ, CARB

4. Satellite NO2 columns, NOx emissions, and air quality in North America(Streets) with EPA, LADCO, MDE

5. Satellite signatures of emissions associated with US oil & gas extraction(Thompson) with BLM, EPA Region 8, MARAMA, CenSARA, Oklahoma DEQ, MDE, CDPHE

6. Air quality reanalysis (translating research to services)(Carmichael) with EPA, CARB, Georgia DNR, MDE, Virginia DEQ

7. Evaluation of AQAST’s impact on the air quality management community (Milford) with EPA, WRAP, SJVACPD

AQAST projects cover wide range of themes, Earth Science resources, AQ agency partners

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• Local: RAQC, BAAQD, SJVAPCD, CDPHE• States: California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming • Regional: LADCO, CenSARA, MARAMA• National: EPA, NOAA, NPS, BLM, USFS

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Satellites: MODIS, MISR, MOPITT, AIRS, OMI, TES, GOES, GOME-2

Suborbital: ARCTAS, DISCOVER-AQ, ozonesondes, PANDORA

Models: MOZART, CAM, AM-3, GEOS-Chem, RAQMS, STEM, GISS, CMIP

92 AQAST publications in peer-reviewed literature

Many facets of AQAST support of air quality management

publications for managers

ozone gardens network

media days

organization of conferences

training workshopsexceptional

event designations

AQAST media center

software tools

Continuity of AQ measurements from space ensured by operational satellites

GOME-2 and IASI (Europe), OMPS and VIIRS (US)

GOME2-B SAO OMPS09:30 LT 13:30 LT

Summer 2013 Formaldehyde

TROPOMI to be launched in 2016: daily NO2, formaldehyde, ozone, CO, methaneat 7x7 km2 resolution

Current methane observations from GOSAT

Next frontier: NASA TEMPO geostationary satellite data2018-2021 launch; PI Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian)

• Hourly observations at 2x2 km2 resolution• Aerosol optical depth, ozone, NO2, formaldehyde, SO2…• First measurements of ozone in boundary layer (visible Chappuis bands)• Part of a geostationary constellation with concurrent satellites observing

East Asia and Europe

Need to develop framework for early/effective use ot TEMPO data by AQ managers

What future for AQAST?

• Mandate of current team ends in 2016; first-of-its-kind NASA Applications Science Team

• AQAST evaluation Tiger Team will study impact, lessons learned• Other applications communities will want their “AQAST” too!

• AQAST needs to continue in some form• Maintain the network of partnerships developed with user community • AQ issues continue to evolve rapidly• Exploit new opportunities offered by TROPOMI, TEMPO

A sample of testimonials from AQ managers…

• “AQAST’s participation in EPA’s stratospheric intrustion workgroup has been a big success… AQAST is being held up as an example of the type of relationship EPA would like to have with NASA….” (Terry Keating, EPA)

• “The N-deposition AQAST project will support the review of the secondary NAAQS…” (Rich Scheffe, EPA)

• “AQAST has provided vital information on two specific aspects of background ozone that have directly informed EPA policy planning…” (Pat Dolwick, EPA)

• “AQAST’s Rapid Benefits Calculator alleviates a major limiting factor for quantifying the impacts of air pollutants around the world…” (Susan Anenberg, EPA)

• “AQAST helps us answer very important questions for the state…” (Angie Dickens, Wisconsin DNR)

• “The support from AQAST has provided enormous benefit for the Maryland ozone SIP…” (George Aburn, MDE)

• “AQAST improves the decision-making system…” (Ajith Kaduwela, CARB)• “I applaud AQAST for developing techniques for using satellite data to

improve modeling of the physical atmosphere…" (Bright Dornblaser, TCEQ)• “Your work has been invaluable to us…In AQAST, we have a team of experts

to turn to (Patrick Reddy, Colorado DPHE)• “AQAST allowed us to use state-of-science boundary conditions for our

ozone SIP and document exceptional events (Kenneth Lloyd, RAQC)