[ESIP-AQ] GEOSS AIP Health:Air Quality Intro Slides for AIP Plenary

[Moore, Tom]

All - I had a thought about bullet #3 on slide 2 - "Air Quality Forecasting".  It makes me think about terminology and whether we can all be using the same meaning for some of these terms.

I think there are several scales and dimensions to air quality forecasting - if this means predicting air quality tomorrow in Boulder, then I think we should strive to be more explicit in the definition, since those forecasting use some kind of quick-turnaround system with inherent accuracies, uncertainties, and assumptions built in.  Air quality planning work under the Clean Air Act is also systematic, typically forecasting 5 to 10 year horizons, and I hope to see that scale better addressed (and truth-checkedas we move to integrate satellite and ground-based observations in the future.  Also, the term "operational" is often used with "forecasting" - if "operational forecasting" is going to be part of the discussion, a more explicit definition is probably also needed, since I understand that different agencies mean different, perhaps non-comparable uses for their "operational forecasts".  Points are that 1) terminology between satellite data analysts and traditional AQ analysts would be good to continue to clarify, and 2) the shelf life (and other dimensions/scales) of "forecasting" needs to be more precisely qualified.

Rudy - nothing to change on the PowerPoint from my point of view, thanks for putting it together - just a couple of thoughts.  Thanks to you, Stefan, David, and Frank for putting the GEOSS AIP Air Quality Scenario session together -

Regards, Tom

Tom Moore
Western Regional Air Partnership
www.wrapair.org<http://www.wrapair.org/>

Air Quality Program Manager
Western Governors' Association
970.491.8837
mooret at cira.colostate.edu<mailto:mooret at cira.colostate.edu>

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Subject: GEOSS AIP Health:Air Quality Intro Slides for AIP Plenary

Hello All,

Attached please find three slides for the 5 minute AQ Scenario introduction<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/AQ_SBA_Pilot_Intro> to be shown at the AIP Plenary on Thursday of this week. Please send me any comments or fixes by the end of today.

Thanks-
Rudy


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Stefan Falke <stefan.falke at gmail.com<mailto:stefan.falke at gmail.com>> wrote:
Your response to the OGC GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase 2 was identified as providing primary contributions to the Health: Air Quality Societal Benefit Area (SBA).  In preparation for next week's AIP Kick-off Workshop, the primary participants are kindly asked to provide some initial input in:

1) Reviewing the summary of the AIP-AQ CFP responses <http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/AIP_CFP_AQ_Responses> and updating the summaries
2) Outlining your goals for the AIP<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Expectations_from_AIP-2>
3) Preparing a short (5 minutes) overview of your AIP-AQ contributions to be presented during the AQ session next week.

To help with the coordination of the Health:Air Quality SBA, we are using a wiki workspace: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/GEOSS_AIP_Air_Quality
We are intending to transfer from the ESIP wiki to the OGC Network as that page matures prior to the kick-off.

To contribute to the wiki pages, you will need to register for a user account with the ESIP wiki<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup> if you do not already have one. Alternatively, your inputs can be emailed (stefan.falke at gmail.com<mailto:stefan.falke at gmail.com>).

The wiki page includes a tentative agenda<http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/GEOSS_AIP_Air_Quality#Session_Agenda> for our workshop session. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for the kick-off workshop.

We look forward to your inputs and seeing you in Boulder.

Best regards,
AIP-2 Kick-off Workshop AQ co-leads
Stefan Falke
Rudolf Husar
David McCabe
Frank Lindsay



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Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis (CAPITA),
Washington University,
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