AQAST Year 1 in review Scope of activities Accomplishments Investigator projects

1. AQAST Year 1 in review • Scope of activities • Accomplishments • Investigator projects • Tiger Team projects • Communications • Looking ahead to Year 2 • Our next meeting • Logo • Investigator projects • Responding to EPA priority requests from Nov 11 meeting • Responding to air quality managers’ requests from this meeting

2. Partner agency SIP Modeling AQ processes Monitoring AQ-Climate Background IC/BC for AQ models Forecasting Emissions Future satellites • Local: RAQC, BAAQD • State: TCEQ, MDE, • Wisconsin DNR, CARB, • Iowa DNR, GAEPD, GFC • Regional: LADCO, EPA Region 8 • National: EPA, NOAA, • NPS AQAST Year 1 in review: scope of activities Theme Satellites: MODIS, MISR, MOPITT, AIRS, OMI, TES, GOES Suborbital: ARCTAS, DISCOVER-AQ, ozonesondes, PANDORA Models: MOZART, CAM AM-3, GEOS-Chem, RAQMS, STEM, GISS, IPCC Earth Science resource

3. EARTH SCIENCE SERVING AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT NEEDS • Nine journal publications • Background ozone • Intercontinental/transboundary emissions • Chemistry/climate interactions • Two workshops • Processing and applications of Earth Science data (3/12) • Physical atmosphere advisory group (4/12) • Working with DISCOVER-AQ • Forecasts for MDE • Education and publication outreach • Saint Louis ozone garden • Decision support • Iowa tire fire plume forecast • Websites • WHIPS, GLIMPSE, PSU AQAST Year 1 in review: accomplishments Please keep me aware of your accomplishments!

4. IPs are supported by your core funding; use them to pursue your interests in serving evolving AQM needs • This flexibility comes with some oversight • Partnership with air quality agencies is critical • Present progress reports at AQAST meetings • Provide yearly 1-pager for sharing with the Team, posting on the web • Most IPs have a May anniversary date when annual progress reports are due • You get an automatic email from NASA 90 days before due date • Send the reports to team leader for approval and forwarding to program manager • A few PIs are out of sequence, just abide by your own anniversary date AQAST Year 1 in review: investigator projects

5. TTPs were uncompeted in Year 1 • Got the funds rolling, encouraged team collaboration • 1-year funding from October 1 to September 30 • TTPs will be competed within the Team starting in Year 2 • TTPs will be 1-year projects, total of $1.5M to be allocated each year • TTPs must (1) address pressing AQM needs, (2) build collaborations within team, (3) have clear AQM outcomes. • All AQAST members are expected to be involved in TTPs during part of their AQAST tenure • TTP proposals are due Sept. 1, for Oct 1 start date • 2-page project description, expanding on current 1-pager format • For continuing TTPs, 1-page summary of accomplishments • Full budgets with justifications • Include funds for travel to publicize results • TTP proposal review will take place both within and outside the Team • All AQAST PIs will be asked to rate all TTPs except their own • Two external referees will review and rate all TTP proposals • Team leader will gather info and make recommendations to NASA AQAST Year 1 in review: tiger team projects

6. AQAST meetings • Twice a year schedule • Try to make them “events” for AQ science and management • How is the current format working? • AQAST communication tools • Website hosted at Harvard • Ning site for intra-team communication • Newsletter every three months – 133 subscribers presently • AQAST presence at external meetings • Advertise AQAST in your talks at meetings; has worked great • General PR • AQAST seems to be receiving increasing recognition in the AQ community • We should take more advantage of NASA PR resources AQAST Year 1 in review: communications

7. presently scheduled for Nov 29-30 (Th-F) at CARB, with AGU session (and town hall meeting?) the following week. • we got approved by AGU for session A008. Application of Satellite Data to Serve Air Quality Management Needs (Duncan, Edwards, Holloway, Jacob) – Abstracts are due August 8 • UC Davis AQ meeting is the week after AGU • We could try to minimize travel duration by having the CARB meeting for one day during the AGU week – what do you think? Our next meeting (AQAST 4)

8. Some AQAST logo suggestions

9. 2012-2013 one-pager descriptions are now posted on AQAST website • NEW PROJECTS: • Evaluating photochemical model performance with vertically resolved data (Cohan) • "How to" manual for evaluating model results with satellite observations/accessibility of satellite data for AQM users (Duncan) • Stratospheric influence on surface ozone over the western US (Fiore) • Atmospheric processes affecting emission sector contributions to O3 and PM2.5 episodes (Holloway) • Improved use of satellite fire observations for reanalysis of air quality events (Hyer) • Background ozone in the contiguous US and nitrogen deposition to US National Parks (Jacob) • Satellite detection of wild and prescribed fires in southeastern US (Liu) • Estimating the climate penalty for US ozone air quality: rapid calculation across models and scenarios (Mickley) • CONTINUATION OF YEAR 1 PROJECTS with expanded objectives/outcomes (Carmichael, Edwards, Fishman, Henze, Hyer, McNider, Russell, Streets) Review of Year 2 Investigator Projects

10. Now addressed, could do more, not being addressed, probably can’t address( ?) • Transboundary pollution involving Canada and Mexico: sources, transport • Improving biogenic VOC and NOx emission inventories • Improving ammonia emission inventories • Improving understanding of nocturnal transport of pollution aloft • “How to” manual for evaluating model results with satellite observations • Improve accessibility of satellite data for AQM users • Contributing to CMAQ v5 evaluation using satellite and DISCOVER-AQ observations • Investigating and interpreting long-term trends over US using satellite data • Using data assimilation to construct continuous surface concentration fields for population exposure • Provide national data for air toxics • Inverse model analyses to constrain emissions using satellite data • Using OSSEs to advise on development of observation networks EPA priority requests to AQAST from Nov 2011 meeting

11. Satellite observations are valuable for: • spatial coverage: assess NAAQS compliance, improve monitor siting • diagnosing exceptional events: fires, dust, stratosphere • observing long-term trends • detecting unrecognized sources (paper mills, fracking, natural gas…) • Need to improve ease of access, user-friendliness of satellite data • On-line courses very useful • Need easy-to-use data formats • Improve emission inventories: • Biogenic VOCs, ammonia, oil&gas, Canada • Increase utility of satellite data for forecasting • Improve understanding of AQ processes: • wintertime PM episodes, lake-breeze effects, wintertime high ozone, Canadian pollution influences • Improve understanding of background ozone, esp. stratospheric influence • Use satellite data for evaluation of regulatory models and enable uncertainty estimates Air quality managers’ priorities stated at this meeting