COMMUNITY WORKSHOP ON AIR QUALITY REMOTE SENSING FROM SPACE:
DEFINING AN OPTIMUM OBSERVING STRATEGY
Agenda
Tuesday, 21 February
08:30 - 08:40 | Tim Killeen, NCAR Director: Welcome |
08:40 - 09:00 | David Edwards, NCAR: Workshop Motivation & Objectives (PDF Download) |
Session 1: Current and Future Requirements for Air Quality Satellite Observations
Co-chairs: Phil DeCola and Mitch Goldberg
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09:00 - 09:15 | Rick Anthes, UCAR: Earth Science and Applications from Space: Initial results of decadal study and a progress report (PDF Download) |
09:15 - 09:30 | Phil DeCola, NASA HQ: The NASA perspective |
09:30 - 09:45 | Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS: Current and Future Air Quality Applications of NOAA Operational Satellite Data (PDF download) |
09:45 - 10:00 | Joerg Langen, ESA-ESTEC: A Study on Operational Atmospheric Chemistry Monitoring Missions (PDF download) |
10:30 - 10:45 | John Lyon, US EPA: EPA Requirements for AQ Monitoring and Regulation (PDF download) |
10:45 - 11:00 | Rohit Mathur, NOAA/US EPA: On the Use of Remote Sensing Air Quality Information in Regional Scale Air Pollution Modeling: Current Use and Future Observation Requirements (PDF download) |
11:00 - 11:15 | Richard Scheffe, US EPA: Optimizing Observational Systems for Enhanced Air Quality Characterization: Linking Agencies, Disciplines, Media and Global Communities (PDF download) |
Session 2: Current Observational Capabilities, Limitations and Lessons Learned
Co-chairs: P. K. Bhartia and Dave Diner
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Wednesday, 22 February
Session 3: Modeling and Data Assimilation
Chair: Daniel Jacob
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Session 4: Future Mission Concepts and Observing Strategies
Co-chairs: John Burrows, Jack Fishman & Phil DeCola
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Session 5: Posters
Posters
- X Liu et al. (Harvard University): Directly Retrieved Global Distribution of Tropospheric Column Ozone from GOME (PDF Download)
- K. Schaefer et al. (Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Germany): Data fusion for assessment of urban air pollution (PDF Download)
- T. Tu et al. (Harvard Univerisity): Space based HCHO measurements as contraints on VOC emmissions in Asia (PDF Download)
- D. Lary et al. (NASA/GMAO): Objectively optimized sensor web (PDF Download)
- D. Millet et al. (Harvard University): What can we learn from HCHO column measurements from space? Hydrocarbon emissions, error analysis, and OMI-GOME comparisonx (PDF Download)
- J.B. Kumer et al. (LMATC): Tropospheric infared mapping spectrometers (TIMS) for air quality measurements (PDF Download)
- Kibler et al. (NOAA/NESDIS): Current Capabilities and Future Needs for the Hazard Mapping System in Support of Air Quality Analysis and Forecasting (PDF Download)
- L. Zhang et al. (Harvard University): Continental outflow of ozone pollution as determined by ozone-CO correlations from the TES satellite instrument (PDF Download)
- Ho et al. (NCAR): Improvement of the Retrievals of Carbon Monoxide in the Planetary Boundary Layer using Combined Infrared and Solar Measurements: A simulation Study
- Vijayaraghavan et al. (AER): Evaluation of Regional Air Pollution Model with Satellite Measurements
- Drori et al. (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem): Partitioning CO sources using TERRA measurements
- Phulpin et al. (CNES): Low troposphere monitoring with TRAQ Mission
- Schofield et al. (NOAA): Remote sensing of the optical properties of clouds
- Brunner et al.(U. Wisconsin-Madison): Estimation of biomass burning PM2.5 emissions using GOES WFABBA fire characterization data
Thursday, 23 February
Session 6: Next Steps
08:30 - 10:00 | Panel Discussion: Defining an Optimum Observing Strategy: What are the requirements on species observed, spatial resolution and coverage, temporal resolution and repeat times, probing the boundary layer, etc.? Moderator: Daniel Jacob (Harvard University); Panel: Cathy Clerbaux (CNRS), David Edwards (NCAR), Claire Granier (CNRS), Shobha Kondragunta (NOAA/NESDIS), Jim Szykman (NASA/LaRC) |
10:30 - 12:00 | Moderated Discussion: How well do future mission concepts address future needs? |
12:00 - 12:30 | Next Steps |