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NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University AQAST Leader

NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University AQAST Leader. www.aqast.org. 6 th AQAST meeting - Rice University, January 15-17, 2014. Pollution monitoring Exposure assessment AQ forecasting Source attribution Quantifying emissions External influences

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NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST) Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University AQAST Leader

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  1. NASA Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (AQAST)Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard UniversityAQAST Leader www.aqast.org 6th AQAST meeting - Rice University, January 15-17, 2014

  2. Pollution monitoring Exposure assessment AQ forecasting Source attribution Quantifying emissions External influences AQ processes Climate interactions satellites AQAST suborbital platforms models AQAST

  3. 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.) • DavenHenze, Jana Milford (U. Colorado) • Edward Hyer, Jeff Reid, Doug Westphal, Kim Richardson (NRL) • Pius Lee, TianfengChai(NOAA/NESDIS) • Yang Liu, Matthew Strickland (Emory U.), Bin Yu (UC Berkeley) • Richard McNider, ArastooBiazar (U. Alabama – Huntsville) • Brad Pierce (NOAA/NESDIS) • Ted Russell, YongtaoHu, TalatOdman (Georgia Tech); Lorraine Remer (NASA/GSFC) • David Streets (Argonne) • Jim Szykman (EPA/ORD/NERL) • Anne Thompson, William Ryan, SuellenHaupt (Penn State U.) AQAST members

  4. What makes AQAST unique? • All AQAST projects connect Earth Science and air quality management: • Involve active partnerships with air quality managers, have deliverable application outcomes • Expand relationships through meetings, online tools, newsletters • 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 to address newly emerging, pressing problems requiring coordinated activity • AQAST is self-organizing and can respond quicklyto demands Quick, collaborative, flexible, responsive to the needs of the AQ community www.aqast.org

  5. AQ agency SIP Modeling AQ processes Monitoring AQ-Climate Background IC/BC for AQ models Forecasting Emissions Future satellites • Local: RAQC, BAAQD, SJVAPCD, CDPHE • States: California, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin • Regional: LADCO, CenSARA, MARAMA • National: EPA, NOAA, • NPS, BLM Scope of current AQAST projects Theme 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 Earth Science resource

  6. Goals of this meeting • To share knowledge and experience in using Earth Science data and tools for serving AQ management • To educate AQ managers in the use of Earth Science data and tools, and educate Earth scientists on AQ needs • To hear about pressing AQ management issues, and determine how AQAST can help – to-do list! • To discuss specific issues facing east Texas, including first results from the DISCOVER-AQ aircraft campaign 5th AQAST meeting at U. Maryland (June 9-11, 2013)

  7. Year 2 Tiger Team activity involving nine AQAST PIs working with AQ managers AQAST Highlight:Primer on using satellite data for air quality emission estimates

  8. Nitrogen deposition in US national parks US ammonia emission inventories Present and future (RCP) US emissions AQAST Highlight: Ammonia emissions and nitrogen deposition in the US • Improved understanding of ammonia emissions in US by adjoint inversion of satellite and deposition data • Demonstration of broad N exceedance problem in national parks, driven by ammonia in future • Presently working with EPA and NPS in evaluation of secondary nitrogen oxides standard NOx 2050 2006 NH3 AQAST PIs: Henze, Jacob

  9. AQAST Highlight: N American background ozone estimated from two different global models (simulations with N. American anth. emissions set to zero) Fourth-highest North American background MDA8 O3 in model surface layer between Mar 1 and Aug 31, 2006 AM3 (~2°x2°) GEOS-Chem (½°x⅔°) J. Oberman ppb 35 42 50 57 65 Excessive lightning NOx in summer High AM3 bias in EUS; caution on N. Amer. Background here! Higher background: More exchange with surface? Larger stratospheric influence? • Large intermodel difference in background ozone over Intermountain West • has important implications for AQ management strategies AQAST PI: Fiore

  10. AQAST Products • GLIMPSE (Henze): fast screening tool for radiative forcing implications of AQ management strategies • Operational AQ ensemble forecasts for Maryland (Thompson) • WHIPS (Holloway): user-friendly processing of satellite data

  11. 1. Easily obtain useful data in familiar formats • Custom OMI NO2 “Level 3” products on any grid in netCDF with WHIPS (Holloway) • Annual NO2shapefiles - OMI & CMAQ on CMAQ grids (AQAST Tiger Team) • Google Earth • 2. Find easy-to-use guidance & example scripts for understanding OMI products and comparing to simulated troposphere & PBL concentrations • One-stop user portal (Holloway & AQAST Tiger Team) • OMI NO2 & SO2 guidance, field campaign example case studies (Spak& AQAST Tiger Team) • 3. Obtain OMI observational operators for assimilation & emissions inversion in CMAQ • NO2 in GEOS-Chem CMAQ (Henze, Pye) • SO2 in STEM  CMAQ (Spak, Kim) • O3 in STEM  CMAQ (Huang, Carmichael, Kim) AQAST progress toward an OMI AQ management toolkit:AQ managers can now… OMI NO2 KML in SARP flight planning AQAST PI: Carmichael

  12. ARSET/AQAST training for Bay Area Air Quality Management District: application of NASA /NOAA aerosol/smoke/fire satellite data for AQ monitoring Course Taught by AQAST PI Yang Liu with Pawan Gupta • September 10 - 12, 2013, Santa Clara, CA; hosted by BAAQMD • 16 attendees from local AQ agencies, private sector, and academia

  13. AQAST deputy leader Tracey Holloway ARSET/AQAST at CMAS • Semiannual AQAST meetings • AQAST workshops and training sessions • AQAST representation at AQ meetings • Ozone garden network • 2012 AGU AQAST session and Town Hall • Website, quarterly newsletter • Media center, Twitter • AQ managers surveys AQAST communicationsand outreach St. Louis ozone garden NO2 trends lenticular

  14. NO2 Observed from Space Environmental Manager: February 2014 AQAST special issue • Monitoring PM2.5 for health: past, present, and future directions • (Liu et al. ) • Air quality forecasting (Hu et al.) • Interactions between climate change and US air quality (Mickley et al.) • Using satellite observations to measure power plant emissions and their trends (Streets et al.) • Detecting and attributing episodic high background ozone events(Fiore et al.) • Integratingsatellitedatainto air qualitymanagement: experiencefromColorado (Witman and Holloway) 2005 2011

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