2011 Progress Report to UIC:

GEOSS Air Quality Community of Practice

(AQ CoP)  

Rudolf Husar (Point of Contact, rhusar@wustl.edu)Washington University in St. Louis 

18th GEOSS User Interface Committee Meeting

Sydney, April 8, 2011

Air Quality & Health Applications

Air Quality & Health Applications

‘Integrating Initiatives’Not necessarily ‘under GEO’

HTAP, MACC, ACP, CyAir…

Both Members and Beneficiariesof AQ CoP

AQ Data Server Software

• Supported by specific projects, HTAP, MACC, EE• Co-developed at WashU, FZ Juelich, Open Source• Implemented at servers:

– FZ Juelich, Germany (Global AQ model forecasts)

– NILU, Norway (EMEP Monitoring Obs)

– NGC Corp., US (AQ Emissions data)

– VIEWS/CIRA, US (Aerosol Chemistry, Satellite)

– DataFed, US (Tens of AQ datasets)

Common Data Access Standard, Conventions and Metadata

Interoperability tested through client software

Problem:

AQ data services are few and not interoperable

Next Problem:

Interoperable servers are emerging but there are few clients

User-Required Obs. Models

US-09-01a Nine-Step Method for Priority Eos1:  Identify Analyst and Advisory Group for the SBA

2:  Determine scope of topics within the SBA 3:  Identify docs on obs. priorities for the SBA 4:  Develop analytic methods and priority criteria 5:  Analyze docs for priority EO needs6:  Combine the info. and develop a prelim. report 7:  Gather feedback on the preliminary report 8:  Perform any additional analysis 9:  Complete the report on Earth obs. for the SBA

Developed Five-Step Methodology for User Req. Registry

1: State the SB Sub-Area: e.g. Manage Air Quality 2: Define Major Workflow Steps of the SBA3: Name the Value-Adding Activities4: Identify Participants for Each Activity (‘Users’)5: Determine the Participant’s EO Needs

Project supported by EPAAQ CoP guided and helped populating AQ URR!

Similar Concept

Output

User-RequiredObservations

& Models

Matching Offerings and Needs

AQ Community Catalog – Extracted from GCI

AQ Requirements – Extracted from GEO URR

Data in GCI

Data in URR

Activities – Continued in 2011: Focus: Expanding, Firming AQ Data Network

Projects:HTAP, MACC, EE, …Network - continueAtmospheric Composition Portal (ACP)

AIP 4: Coordinated Participation in the GEOSS AIP-IVPopulate GCI with US-09-01a CORE data

Community InteractionTelecons, GEO AQ CoP website needs work!AQ CoP Data Networking workshop in Croatia, Aug 2011

AQ Community Catalog – uFIND

Air Quality CoP formed in 2010,Fucus on AQ Data Networking

Health & EnvironmentCoP formed in 2009