A51M:
New Directions for Open-Source Air Quality Data: Applications in Health, Air Quality, Environmental Management, and Public Outreach II Posters


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Session ID#: 56657

Session Description:
Novel applications of open-source air-quality data are advancing the fields of public health, air quality, and environmental management, as well as increasing the impact of public outreach/partnerships globally between scientists and public stakeholders. While NASA satellite data and tools are freely available and accessible, the full, transformative possibilities of satellites have been limited, due to potential users’ lack of knowledge regarding data access/utility. Also, other air-quality data are often isolated, preventing connections needed for policy and public-health applications. This interdisciplinary session will curate and discuss a wide suite of data and products, from satellites, including TEMPO, MAIA, TROPOMI, SENTINAL 4, GEMS, AQUA, TERRA, and from low-cost sensor and ground-based measurements. We will discuss both historical uses of air-quality data and its potential for applications to further the aims of public health, air quality, and environmental groups (including those for environmental justice). Finally, we will address strategies for engaging the public.
Primary Convener:  Mike Newchurch, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric and Earth Science Department, Huntsville, United States
Conveners:  Yeonjoo Heidi Yoon, OpenAQ, Washington, DC, United States and Yang Liu, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daegan Miller, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Chairs:  Mike Newchurch, Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, United States and Yeonjoo Heidi Yoon, OpenAQ, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yeonjoo Heidi Yoon, OpenAQ, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

U.S. EPA’s AirNow International Air Sensor Applications and Initiatives in Accra, Ghana (374935)
Nathan R Pavlovic1, Phillip G. Dickerson2, John E White3, Emmanuel Appoh4, Sara Terry2, Gayle Hagler5, Amanda Kaufman2, Alan Chan6, Jennifer L DeWinter1, Levi Stanton1 and Steven G Brown7, (1)Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA, United States, (2)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, United States, (3)US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Durham, United States, (4)Ghana Environmental Protection Agency, Accra, Ghana, (5)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, United States, (6)Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, United States, (7)Sonoma Technology Inc, Petaluma, CA, United States
Community Air Quality Projects at the Intersection of Citizen Science, the Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics (421281)
Ethan McMahon, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC Headquarters, Office of Environmental Information, Washington, DC, United States, Anna Scott, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Brian Miles, CGI, Lafayette, United States and Robin A. Thottungal, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, United States
Sippin’ On Science – Outreach, Small Towns, and Data Product Apps (444225)
Bridget Seegers, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, Jeremy Werdell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Blake A Schaeffer, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States
Employing a Bioindicator Garden as an Effective Strategy for Engaging the Public about the Impacts of Air Quality on Health and Food Security (459240)
Lauren Balotin, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, Emerson Sirk, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Ginger Butcher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Landsat Communications & Outreach, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bryan N Duncan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
An Application of Satellite Data on Fires for Environmental Inspection of Open Burning (463574)
Chien-Wei Huang, YenChun Chen, Cheng-Yang Lu, Cheng-Shi Peng, Yeuh-Bin Wang and Shuenn-Chin Chang, Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
Identifying the Spatiotemporal Variability of NH3 Across the Contiguous U.S. (435054)
Rui Wang1, Kang Sun2, Xuehui Guo3, Da Pan3, Lieven Clarisse4, Martin Van Damme5, Simon Whitburn6, Pierre-Francois Coheur4 and Mark A Zondlo7, (1)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (3)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, (4)Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry and Atmospheric Remote Sensing (SQUARES), Brussels, Belgium, (5)Université libre de Bruxelles, SQUARES, Brussels, Belgium, (6)Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Quantum Chemistry and Photophysics, Atmospheric Spectroscopy, Brussels, Belgium, (7)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
Decomposing PM2.5 Variation and Demographic Change Effects on Population Exposure over China from 2001 to 2015 (358287)
Changqing Lin and Alexis Kai-Hon Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Fine-resolution Ground-level PM2.5 Estimations in China 2014-2017 (382820)
Zhu Deng1, Baolei Lv2, Yuqi Bai1 and Zhu Liu1,3, (1)Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)Huayun Sounding Meteorological Technology Corporation, Beijing, China, (3)Water Security Research Centre, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Short-term forecasting for ground-level particulate matter using satellite observations and numerical model output (367058)
Seohui Park, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Jungho Im, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan, South Korea
A Physical Approach to Constraining Chemical Transport PM2.5 Modeling Outputs Using Surface-Monitor Measurements and Satellite Retrievals (425643)
Mariel Friberg, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, Ralph A Kahn, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, James Limbacher, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Wyat Appel, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States and James A. Mulholland, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
Using Earth Observations to Monitor City-wide Air Quality (438279)
Karn Vohra1, Eloise Ann Marais2, William Bloss1 and Peter Porter3, (1)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leicester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, (3)Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Progress on the Use of MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth for Fine-Scale PM Analysis: Case Studies for California (435243)
Frank Freedman, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Universities Space Research Association at NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States and Akula Venkatram, University of California Riverside, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Riverside, United States
Benefits of Reduced Premature Mortality from Decreases in PM2.5 and O3 in the United States from 1999 to 2015 (390110)
Omar Nawaz, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Yuqiang Zhang, Shandong University, Environment Research Institute, Jinan, China, Daniel Tong, NOAA College Park, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, Aaron van Donkelaar, Dalhousie University, Dept Physics & Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, Randall Martin, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States and James J West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Applications of the Multi-angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) for Air Quality and Health: Optimization of Epidemiological Study Areas for Societal Benefit (453830)
Abigail Nastan1, Olga V. Kalashnikova2, Michael J Garay2, Kristal R Verhulst3, Sina Hasheminassab4, David J Diner5, Bart Ostro6 and The MAIA Team, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Air Quality Research Center, Davis, United States
Formaldehyde Observations from Space: Temporal Patterns, Model Evaluation, and Estimates of Near-Surface Amounts to Support Health Risk Assessment (388181)
Monica Harkey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Peidong Wang, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States, Kirk R Baker, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States and Barron H Henderson, EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
Application of a useful indicator using satellite retrieved formaldehyde and nitrogen dioxides for mapping ozone production regimes over the continental U.S. during 2005 – 2016 (409935)
Ying Zhou, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States and Huiting Mao, SUNY-ESF, Chemistry, Syracuse, United States
Satellite retrieved interannual variability and trends of NO2 over China from 2005 to 2017: effect of aerosol interannual variability on NO2 retrieval (384967)
Mengyao Liu, Peking University, Beijing, China, Jintai Lin, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China, Klaas Folkert Boersma, Eindhoven University of Techno, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Henk Eskes, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands and Lulu Chen, George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, United States
Update on Using Satellite Data to Aid Quantification and Attribution of Background Ozone Changes in the Western US (455195)
Gregory B Osterman1, Jessica L. Neu2, Dejian Fu3, Susan Kulawik4, Meemong Lee3, Thomas W Walker5 and Kevin W Bowman6, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Carleton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Integrating Earth observations in the UK air quality management strategy (366935)
Eloise Ann Marais1, Karn Vohra2, Peter Porter3, Nafeesa Dajda4, Savio Moniz5, Caroline Poulsen6, John Newington5 and Ioannis Tsagatakis7, (1)University of Leicester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (3)Birmingham City Council, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)Satellite Applications Catapult, Harwell, United Kingdom, (5)Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, London, United Kingdom, (6)Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell, United Kingdom, (7)Ricardo, London, United Kingdom
Evaluation of TROPOMI NO2 Retrievals Using Ground-based Measurements in California (392909)
Dr. Madankui Tao, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States and Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Assessing Air Pollutant Exposure Inequities Using High-Resolution Nitrogen Dioxide Datasets (425106)
Mary Angelique G Demetillo1, Katherine Knowles1, Aracely Navarro2, Jeffrey Geddes3, Caroline R Nowlan4, Laura Margaret Judd5, Jassim A Al-Saadi6 and Sally Pusede7, (1)University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (2)Colorado College, Colorado Springs, United States, (3)Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, (4)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center (retired), Hampton, United States, (7)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States

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