Unofficial draft, do not use or cite. This page is a simple prototype that builds on the HAQAST AirNow Tiger
Team and allows team members to exploring data before official platform is available. The prototype displays
Hourly AQI-like surfaces from GOES-PM25. The Tiger Team description from the
haqast.org is copied below and is followed by references for more details.
Tiger Team Project Description (copied from HAQAST)
Title: Enabling USEPA to ingest high-frequency satellite air quality data into the AirNow system
Team Lead: HAQAST investigator Pawan Gupta
Partners: Phil Dickerson and Barron Henderson with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Shobha Kondragunta with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
HAQAST Members and Collaborators: Jingqiu Mao, Yang Liu, Kel Markert, Robert Levy, Randall Martin, Amber J. Soja, Martin Stuefer, Jenny Bratburd, Emily Gargulinksi, Yanshun Li, and Daniel Tong also contribute to this team.
The EPA, in partnership with other federal and state agencies, operates the AirNow program (airnow.gov). The AirNow system is EPA's one-stop resource for accessing air quality (AQ) information. The major gap in the AirNow system is limited spatial coverage from ground monitors, limited information on smoke and dust transport, and regional AQ view. NASA, NOAA, and other U.S. agencies have been building on satellite capabilities for AQ monitoring for almost two decades using low earth-orbiting satellites and, more recently, with geostationary satellites. This project initiated a new collaboration between HAQAST members, NOAA, and USEPA to develop a value added hourly and daily PM2.5 dataset covering CONUS region and integrate it into the AirNow system.
The new data layers at high temporal and spatial resolutions in the USEPA's AirNow system will address significant monitoring gaps in many areas around the country, provide special health advisory during smoke and dust events and generate a framework for ingesting data from future NASA/NOAA missions (i.e., TEMPO, MAIA, ATMOS, GEO-XO) into a regulatory agency's monitoring system. Thus, the project is an excellent opportunity for NASA and NOAA to incorporate Earth observations into environmental monitoring by federal agencies within the United States. You can read more about this team's efforts here.
References
NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Science Team (HAQAST, hay-cast) 2021 Tiger Team: Enabling USEPA to ingest high-frequency satellite air quality data into the AirNow system, url: https://haqast.org/tiger-teams/#2021-tiger-teams
Bratburd, J., Gupta, P., Kondragunta, S., Zhang, H., Henderson, B. H., Dickerson, P., Sayeed, A., Liu, Y., Mao, J., Pruthi, D., Gudipudi, K., White, J. E., and Wyatt, R.: Air Quality Data When You Need It: Incorporating Satellite Data Updates into AirNow, EM Plus, 2022.
O'Dell, K., Kondragunta, S., Zhang, H., Goldberg, D., Kerr, G.H., Wei, Z., Henderson, B.H., Anenberg, S.C.: O'Dell Public Health Benefits from Improved Identification of Severe Air Pollution Events with Geostationary Satellite Data, submitted to GeoHealth, 2023.
Zhang, H., Wei, Z., Henderson, B. H., Anenberg, S. C., O'Dell, K., Kondragunta, S.: Nowcasting Applications of Geostationary Satellite Hourly Surface PM2.5 Data. Weather and Forecasting, 37(12), 2313-2329, 2022. doi: 10.1175/WAF-D-22-0114.1
Zhang, H. and Kondragunta, S.: Daily and Hourly Surface PM2.5 Estimation From Satellite AOD, Earth Space Sci, 8, doi: 10.1029/2020EA001599, 2021.