IMPROVE Website Status and Great Things to Come

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1 IMPROVE Website Status and Great Things to Come Presented to the IMPROVE Steering Committee Okefenokee, GA September 2008 B.A. Schichtel

2 IMPROVE s Evolution Data Tools Publications Special Studies Education Activities

3 IMPROVE Website Purpose Transparency: Document IMPROVE activities: committee, laboratories, users Traceability: Document and provide access to ancillary data Calibration factors Blank corrections Database version control with documentation Inform users of data QA/QC activities and issues Provide access to educational material and documents on visibility issues, science and regulations

4 VIEWS Purpose VIEWS to be a source of the most relevant, up to date and quality assured air quality data for visibility and other applications Link air quality monitoring data, emissions data, modeling results to support environmental science, planning and regulations Leveraging VIEWS infrastructure and tools WRAP Technical Support System (TSS) Fire Emission Tracking System (FETS) Addition of EPA ozone data NASA ROSES projects

5 IMPROVE/VIEWS Growing International User Community Average unique visitors a month IMPROVE ; VIEWS Over 1200 registered users from over 300 organizations, institutions, universities, and companies Visitors from 164 different countries have accessed the websites including visitors from Iran; Iraq and now from Afghanistan and Suriname Hundreds of other websites Link to IMPROVE and VIEWS unique queries to the database a month 1000s dynamic images generated a month

6 Major Change to the VIEWS/TSS Team John Huddleston - Rodger Ames replacement Starts yesterday Duli Chand young researcher which will work on NASA ROSES project Starts in February Top Priorities for John Huddleston Update and smooth out IMPROVE data ingestion and routines including calculation of composite parameters and aggregations Unification and harmonization Migrate data visualization tools to new visualization software (Dundas) with tight integration with production database

7 Additions - Data IMPROVE aerosol data update - periodically Final data is available through December 2006 Complete preliminary data: None Incomplete preliminary data (mass, ions, C): None January 2007 June 2008 data by December 2008 Data submission will include calibration factors Optical data updates Nephelometer scattering data (quarterly) 1993 through June 2008 data available from online database. Transmissometer extinction data (annually) DONE ASCII files: This is the end, my only friend the end. (J. M.)

8 Additions Data Continued Regional Haze Rule Metrics: best and worst 20% haze days RHR1 (old algorithm) data available through 2004 RHR2 (new algorithm) data available through 2006 Not all aggregations have been added to the database and data visualization tools are incomplete should be updated in the next month or so Data issues to be resolved on the next update Mis-reporting of light-absorption on masked filters (data advisory #21) Invalid data for collocated samples (data advisory #20)

9 Additions - Documents 2007 IMPROVE Steering Committee Meeting Presentations Latest IMPROVE newsletters and meeting minutes 2008 IMPROVE Calendar SOPs UCD: SOP 126 Site Selection UCD: SOP 351 Data Processing and Validation DRI Model 2001 Thermal/Optical Carbon Analysis (TOR/TOT) of Aerosol Filter Samples Method IMPROVE_A (2-216R2) Presentations and Summary from the IMPROVE - CSN Carbon PM Monitoring Workshop, UC, Davis, Jan 22-24, 2008 QA/QC 6 new data advisories by W. White Added two limited-life data advisories UCD QA/QC quarterly reports 2 nd, 3 rd, and 4 th quarter for 2006 added

10 Additions - Gray Literature Brochure and schematic of the Navajo Generating Station Regional Haze Rule Natural Level Estimates Using the Revised IMPROVE Aerosol Reconstructed Light Extinction Algorithm

11 Additions EPRI Visibility Reports Peter Mueller saved a number of EPRI reports: Western Regional Air Quality Studies Visibility and Air Quality Measurements: I. Tombach, D. Allard, R. Drake, and R. Lewis The Sub-regional cooperative electric utility, Department of Defense, National Park Service, and EPA Study (SCENES) on Visibility: An Overview by P. Mueller, D. Hansen, and J. Watson Regional Air Quality Studies: The Needs and the Priorities by G. Hilst Comparison of Visibility Measurement Techniques: Eastern United States I. Tombach and D. Allard

12 New Tools Shawn McClure has been working on VIEWS-2 which contains a number of enhanced geographical display tools including contours see Demo

13 VIEWS 2.0 New Metadata Browser

14 VIEWS 2.0: New Query Wizard

15 VIEWS/TSS Analysis Tools: Dynamic Contour Maps

16 VIEWS/TSS Analysis Tools: Dynamic Data Maps

17 VIEWS/TSS Analysis Tools: Dynamic Time Series

18 VIEWS 2.0: IMPROVE Data Advisories IMPROVE Data Advisories document interesting findings from the IMPROVE database such as data anomalies, potential problems, and new uses for the IMPROVE data. These advisories are stored as metadata in the VIEWS database and dynamically associated with data and products. When a user selects data, the systems checks for any advisories relevant to the data selected and attaches them to the output.

19 Other Stuff Participated in the EPA data summit work shop Participated in EPA s DSS system assessment conducted by Ross and Associates Participating in the GEO/GEOSS Architecture Pilot to increase interoperability with other air quality data systems

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21 VIEWS Purpose VIEWS to be a source of the most relevant, up to date and quality assured air quality data for visibility and other applications Link air quality monitoring data, emissions data, modeling results to support environmental science, planning and regulations Leveraging VIEWS infrastructure and tools WRAP Technical Support System (TSS) Fire Emission Tracking System (FETS) Addition of EPA ozone data NASA ROSES projects

22 NASA ROSES 2007: Decision Support through Earth Science Research Results Improving an Air Quality Decision Support System through the Integration of Satellite Data with Ground-based, Modeled, and Emissions Data Uma Shankar Shawn McClure Provided Slides Ana Prados

23 Overall Project Goal To enhance and add value to a currently operational air quality decision support system (VIEWS/TSS) by integrating and utilizing satellite data from NASA satellites Aura, Terra, Aqua, and CALIPSO. Specific Project Goals Develop routine capture, analysis, and processing algorithms with high temporal and spatial resolution to provide land use/land cover data as inputs to emissions and air quality modeling Obtain multiple-dimensional vertical profiles and column measurements of pollutants to improve model inputs and provide evaluation data for gridded chemistry-transport models such as CMAQ Visualize and analyze satellite data in combination with existing monitoring, emissions, and modeling data within a unified decision support platform Develop mode evaluation tools using remote sensing data

24 Activities So Far Conducted a project design workshop (May 12-13, CIRA) Discussed and refined project scope Created a project steering committee composed of end user representatives Created a wiki website for project communications and document-sharing Participated in the EPA s Air Quality Data Summit (February 2008, RTP) Presented an overview of the VIEWS/TSS decision support system Explored parallel efforts being conducted by other organizations Suggested best practices for air quality data exchange and decision support Attended the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Workshop (NCAR) Presented an overview of VIEWS/TSS and the NASA ROSES project Determined the GEOSS architectural standards to be implemented for future interoperability with other air quality data- and decision-support systems Investigated the available and relevant satellite data and products to be integrated into VIEWS/TSS

25 Next Steps: Source Data Acquisition

26 NASA ROSES 2008 Proposals Collaborator to the investigation of 2008 NASA ROSES proposals Collocate AERONET instruments at three IMPROVE monitoring sites AErosol RObotic NETwork is a network of sun photometers which measures atmospheric aerosol properties including spectral aerosol optical depth (AOD) Evaluate the suitability of using AERONET data as a surrogate for surface level haze and particulate concentrations to improve spatial and temporal patterns of aerosol concentrations. Exceptional Event Analysis (Husar) Adding data from the global chemical transport model NAAPS to VIEWS/TSS (Westphal)

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28 Additions Data Continued IMPROVE Data Archive Historical data can be revised once a year in January. Prior to making these changes, the entire IMPROVE data set is archived and differences between each years archive is noted. The first archive will be for the data which includes the Oct 2005 resubmission of data RHR Data in the baseline period ( ) is frozen RHR Data from 2005 onward will continue to be revised Adding an index describing IMPROVE and other data sets IMPROVE has 7 different datasets: Raw, Preliminary, RHR1, RHR2, Substituted, Nephelometer, transmissometer

29 Coming year activities Upgrade integrated database, incorporating emission and modeling data and aggregated data Unify all databases in VIEWS/TSS Create a Data Set Index page to unify and organize data descriptions and access to all VIEWS datasets Query wizard content, ASCII files, Substituted data, archived data, data repository, natural conditions.. Upgraded tools based on developments from TSS Continued maintenance and addition of routine products Enhancements to the visibility and air quality educational tools (Winchester, Malm, Lemke)

30 IMPROVE Website Activities Past year activities Additions Data, documents and analyses CIRA and UCD QA/QC reports and data advisories Air Quality in Sequoia Kings Canyon Tutorial Special study - Yosemite Aerosol Characterization Study (YACS) Upgraded integrated database, analysis and display tools in the VIEWS project Coming year activities Upgrade integrated database, incorporating emission and modeling data and aggregated data Upgraded tools based on developments from TSS Continued maintenance and addition of routine products Enhancements to the visibility and air quality educational tools (Winchester, Malm, Lemke) Add a VIEWS dataset Index to unify and organize data descriptions and access to all VIEWS datasets

31 VIEWS updates: 2006 Addition of RHR datasets UCD resubmission, old and new IMPROVE algorithm, state substitute datasets Best and worst 20% bext flags on daily data Annual summary composition page and Query wizard Figure captions on trends and composition pages reduce all queried database dimensions to descriptive text Generated natural condition estimates using NIA and revised statistical approach Addressed deficiencies in old default approach Glide slopes by dv and aerosol species NIA values addition to VIEWS forthcoming Major revisions to Annual summary GUI List or map based site selection System & user defined presets Dynamic parameter sorting option on composition page Component architecture: charts, control panel, & map component are reused in other pages (e.g. in the WRAP TSS)

32 Substitute data Substitute data complete baseline record at problem sites (sites with less than 3 years of baseline data). Data added to VIEWS at request of CENRAP. Submissions for VISTAS and WRAP pending. Allow calculation of natural conditions based on longer substitute data record Substitute dataset descriptions are on the VIEWS Documents page List of problem sites (12 all together under current protocols) Explanation of identified issues at BOWA, MING, BRET Data retrieval and submission descriptions Substitute data are NOT patched data Substitute data use surrogates to estimate aerosol species concentrations. Methods adopted by States and submitted for review by Monitoring and Data Analysis Workgroup Patched data are derived following specific patching algorithms specified in the RHR Tracking Progress document. Substitute data and products are available from the VIEWS Annual Summary Trends and Composition Pages