| Wednesday, January 11 |
| 2nd EPA Workshop: Focus on Exceptional Events Analysis |
| 12:30 pm |
Introduction |
Jim Szykman, EPA/ORD &
Terry Keating, EPA/OAR |
Exceptional Events Analysis:
In this session, speakers will discuss EPA's policies with respect to Exceptional Events and will present several case studies of the use of satellite observations to identify exceptional events. Participants will discuss how existing capabilities address current analysis needs. |
| 12:40 pm |
EPA HQ Perspective on Best Practices |
Mark Evangelista, EPA/OAR |
| 1:00 pm |
State Perspective on Best Practices |
Bill Murphey, Georgia EPD |
| 1:20 pm |
Best Practices |
Richard Kleidman, NASA |
| 1:50 pm |
DataFed Case Study |
Rudy Husar, Washington University |
| 2:10 pm |
Ozone Stratospheric Intrusion Work Group |
Gail Tonnesen, EPA/R8 |
| 2:30 pm |
Discussion |
|
| 3:00 pm |
Break |
Satellite Data Access Portals and Tools:
In this session, speakers will introduce a number of on-line data portals where relevant satellite data can be accessed and analyzed by air quality analysts. The availability of training resources and future directions for information system development will also be discussed. |
| 3:30 pm |
SmogBlog |
Patricia Sawamura, UMBC |
| 3:50 pm |
Automatic Smoke Detection and Tracking Algorithm and its Application to Exceptional Events Analysis |
Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS |
| 4:10 pm |
NOAA/NESDIS-Hazard Mapping System |
Mark Ruminski, NOAA/NESDIS |
| 4:30 pm |
EPA Remote Sensing Information Gateway |
Jim Szykman, EPA/ORD |
| 4:50 pm |
NASA GIOVANNI |
Greg Leptoukh, NASA |
| 5:10 pm |
Atmospheric Composition Portal/CyAir Recommendations |
Stefan Falke, Northrop Grumman |
| 5:30 pm |
Discussion |
|
| 6:00 pm |
Adjourn for the Day |
| Thursday, January 12 |
| 2nd Annual NOAA GOES-R Air Quality Proving Ground Advisory Group Workshop |
| 8:00 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
|
| 8:45 am |
Welcome and Overview of the Workshop |
Amy Huff |
| 9:00 am |
Correlation between Satellite AOD and Surface PM2.5 Concentrations |
Ray Hoff |
| 9:30 am |
Validation of GOES and GOES-R Aerosol Products |
Shobha Kondragunta |
| 10:00 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am |
Review of the AQPG Near Real-Time Summer 2011 Experiment |
Amy Huff
Eun-Su Yang |
| 11:20 am |
Development of a Simulated ABI Synthetic Natural Color Product for AQPG |
Hai Zhang |
| 11:40 am |
CIRA’s Synthetic Natural Color ABI Product |
Louie Grasso |
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch (sandwiches provided) |
| 1:00 pm |
JPSS Proving Ground |
Mitch Goldberg |
| 1:30 pm |
Breakout Session:
Review of ABI Proxy Aerosol Products for Smoke and Haze Events |
|
| 2:30 |
Update on Delivery System Options for ABI and VIIRS Air Quality Products |
Ray Hoff |
| 3:00 pm |
Break |
| 3:30 pm |
Group Discussion: Feedback on Proxy ABI Aerosol Products, Delivery System Options, and the Next NRT Experiment |
Ray Hoff |
| 4:30 pm |
Upcoming AQPG Activities |
Amy Huff |
| 4:45 pm |
Workshop Evaluations |
|
| 5:00 pm |
Workshop Adjourns |
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