A43E:
New Directions for Open-Source Air Quality Data: Applications in Health, Air Quality, Environmental Management, and Public Outreach I


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Session ID#: 58470

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:  Yang Liu, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States and Yeonjoo Heidi Yoon, OpenAQ, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daegan Miller, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States
Chairs:  Mike Newchurch, Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, United States and Yang Liu, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, 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:

The TEMPO Green Paper: Applications in Air Quality and Health, Agriculture, Forestry, and Economics (408800)
Kelly Chance1, Xiong Liu2, Raid M M Suleiman2, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad2, Peter Zoogman1,3, Huiqun Wang1, Caroline R Nowlan2, Guanyu Huang4, Kang Sun5, Jassim A Al-Saadi6, Juan-Carlos Antuna-Marrero7, James L Carr8, Robert B Chatfield9, Mian Chin10, Ronald C Cohen11, David P Edwards12, Jack Fishman13, David E Flittner14, Jay R Herman15, Jeffrey Geddes16, Daniel J. Jacob17, Scott J Janz18, Joanna Joiner18, Jhoon Kim19, Nickolay Anatoly Krotkov20, Barry L Lefer21, Randall Martin22, Mike Newchurch23, Gabriele Pfister24, Kenneth E Pickering25, R. Bradley Pierce26, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez27, William R Simpson28, Robert J D Spurr29, James Szykman30, Omar Torres10 and Jun Wang31, (1)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics-Spelman College, Atlanta, MA, United States, (5)Research and Education in Energy, Environment and Water Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, Buffalo, United States, (6)NASA Langley Research Center (retired), Hampton, United States, (7)Atmospheric Optics Group of Camagüey, INSMET, Camaguey, Cuba, (8)Carr Astronautics, Washington, United States, (9)NASA, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC, United States, (12)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Saint Louis Univ-O'Neil Hall, St Louis, MO, United States, (14)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (15)University of Maryland JCET, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (16)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (17)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (18)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (19)Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (21)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (22)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (23)Univ of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (24)NCAR/ACD, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (25)NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, United States, (26)NOAA/NESDIS, Center for Satellite Application and Research, Madison, United States, (27)Spanish National Research Council, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, (28)University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fairbanks, United States, (29)Rt Solutions Inc., Cambridge, MA, United States, (30)Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, United States, (31)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
GOES-R Series Products, Product Enhancements and New Applications (467711)
Jamese Sims, NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Integration of Surface Monitor Particulate Matter Measurements with Satellite Observations in the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) Investigation (454925)
Kristal R Verhulst1, Sina Hasheminassab2, Abigail Nastan3, Jocelyn Luna4, Michael J Garay5, Olga V. Kalashnikova3, Randall Martin6 and David J Diner3, (1)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States
Assessing and communicating uncertainties in PM2.5 estimates derived from satellite aerosol optical depth (444823)
Arlene M Fiore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Xiaomeng Jin, Columbia University in the City of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States, Gabriele Curci, University of L'Aquila, CETEMPS, Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, L'Aquila, Italy, Alexei Lyapustin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Yujie Wang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Kevin Civerolo, Seattle, WA, United States, Mike Ku, Department of Environmental Conservation New York State, Albany, NY, United States, Aaron van Donkelaar, Dalhousie University, Dept Physics & Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada and Randall Martin, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States
Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing for Insight into Air Quality and Health (Invited) (364332)
Randall Martin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States; Dalhousie University, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, Canada
Linking Surface Monitors, Satellite Data, and Emissions Inventories to Investigate Regional Haze Trends in the Eastern U.S. (413717)
Zac Adelman1, Daniel L Goldberg2, Donna M Kenski3, Mark Janssen1, Tsengel Nergui1 and Zifeng Lu4, (1)Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium, Hillside, United States, (2)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Lake Mich Air Dir Consortium, Rosemont, IL, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Integration of satellite observations with low-cost air quality monitors: A data science approach to monitor air quality (Invited) (351689)
Pawan Gupta1, Prakash Doraiswamy2, Robert C Levy3, Olga Pikelnaya4, Brandon Feenstra5, J Maibach6, Andrea Polidori5, F Kiros7 and K Mills2, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of California LA, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States, (6)GWU, Washington DC, CA, United States, (7)EPA, Rayleigh, NC, United States
Increasing Satellite Data Applications for Health and Air Quality (449150)
Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Monica Harkey, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
The central role of air quality observations in NASA’s GEOS air quality forecasting model (Invited) (378710)
Christoph Andrea Keller1, K. Emma Knowland2, Bryan N Duncan3, Melanie B Follette-Cook1, Junhua Liu4, Steven Pawson5 and Emily Saunders6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA GSFC/USRA GESTAR, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States
Developing High Resolution Particulate Matter Surfaces for use in Community Health Assessments (Invited) (395618)
Patrick L Kinney, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States, Yang Liu, Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, GA, United States, Susan Anenberg, George Washington University, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Washington, DC, United States, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Universities Space Research Association at NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, Frank Freedman, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States and Maria Castillo, Boston University, Environmental Health, Boston, MA, United States

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