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- 1. Rudolf B. Husar WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis Seminar Presented at Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park February 5, 2013 Exceptional Event Analysis and Decision Support System Exceptional Events: Past, Present, Future Data, Models, Tools: Decision Support Systems NRL NAAPS Model: Advancement in Science
- 2. Mexican Smoke overthe E. U, May 1998 Record Smoke Impact on PM Concentrations Standard 65 un/m3 The day-max ozone is depressed under the smoke plume!
- 3. Asian Dust Cloudover N. America On April 27, the dust cloud arrived in North America. Regional average PM10 concentrations increased to 65 mg/m3 In Washington State, PM10 concentrations exceeded 100 mg/m3 Asian Dust 100 mg/m3 Hourly PM10
- 4. Continental/Hemispheric Dust Eventsover the US Gobi dust in spring Sahara in summer Regional-scale fine dust events are mainly from intercontinental transport Fine Dust Events, 1992-2003 - VIEWS ug/m3
- 5. EE Rule Features– RH Perspective • Not rigid but flexible weight of evidence approach • Not based on single FRM measurement • Encourages use of diverse data and models • Satellites, real-time data, emission-transport model etc. • There is a role of science in AQ Management • EE flagging demands science, particularly the ‘but for’ clause
- 7. Near-Real-Time Data forMay 11, 07 GA Smoke Displayed on DataFed Analysts Console Pane 1,2: MODIS visible satellite images – smoke pattern Pane 3,4: AirNOW PM2.5, Surf. Visibility – PM surface conc. Pane 5,6: AirNOW Ozone, Surf. Wind – Ozone, transport pattern Pane 7,8: OMI satellite Total, Tropospheric NO2 – NO2 column conc. Pane 9,10: OMI satellite Aerosol Index, Fire P-xels – Smoke, Fire Pane 11,12: GOCART, NAAPS Models of smoke – Smoke forecast 1 10 2 4 5 8 7 6 3 9 12 11 Console Links May 07, 2007, May 08, 2007 May 09, 2007 May 10, 2007 May 11, 2007 May 12, 2007 May 13, 2007 May 14, 2007 May 15, 2007
- 8. ‘But for’ demonstration:May 2007 Georgia Smoke Red back-trajectories pass through source area
- 9. Sweat Water fire inS. Georgia Jacksonville Tampa Miami Atlanta Tropospheric NO2 form May 2008 GA Fire
- 10. NO2 form FiresEvidence: OMI Sweat Water fire in S. Georgia (May 2007)
- 11. Exceptional Event Rulein Federal Register in 2007 PM2.5 and Ozone EE flags were added to the monitoring data Next we show the EPA-Approved EE Flags for PM2.5, 2006-2011 EE Rule Implementation, 2007-2012
- 13. Foreign Sources Pattern ofEE flagged PM2.5 data, 2006-2012 Domestic Sources
- 14. Trend of PM2.5Concentration A reason for the 2006-2010 EE flag decline is the overall reduction in PM2.5 concentrations. 2000-2003 avg. 2009-2012 avg. As a result of PM2.5 decline, the number of >35ug/m3 samples has also declined dramatically. No NAAQS exceedances-no EE flag. >35 ug/m3 station count
- 15. Regional Haze Rule:Natural Aerosol The goal is to attain natural conditions by 2064; Baseline during 2000-2004, first Natural Cond. SIP in 2008; SIP & Natural Condition Revisions every 10 yrs
- 16. PM2.5 EE FlagDecline Expected Increase in 2012 Trend of EE flags for PM2.5between 2006 and 2012 based on the official EPA AQS database. The EE flags declined tenfold between 2007-8 and 2010-11 However, in 2012 the average AOT from smoke was higher than any year between 2006 and 2012, probably due the severe drought. The EE flags for 2012 are expected to rise again in 2012. Drought Anomaly, 2012
- 17. Smoke Super-Events in2012: August 1- August 20 20 June 20- July 10 Average Smoke Emission Rate Average Smoke Optical Depth Average Smoke Surface Concentration
- 18. O3 ‘Violation’ Trends Numberof CONUS Stations with O3>75 ppb 2010-2013 1993-2013 Apr-Oct 2012
- 19. Exceptional Event Decision SupportSystem (EE DSS) EE_CATT Screencast NASA Grant: 2009-2012 NASA and NAAPS Products for Air Quality Decision Making, D. Westphal, PI, R. Husar, CoI Washington University, McDonald Academy for Global Energy and Environmental Partnership (MAGEEP)
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- 21. October 2012 MT-KSDust Event 121015_Montana_Dust Event
- 22. October 2012 DustEvent: Passage of the dust plume
- 23. Oklahoma Dust PlumeEvent over Huntsville, Alabama October 19, 2012 NSSTC Rooftop Camera, Looking East, without and with Dust Kevin Knupp, Michael Newchurch, Udaysankar Nair, Dustin Phillips, David Bowdle, Shih Kuang, Wesley Cantrel, University of Alabama in Huntsville Kathy Jones Chattanooga-Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Bureau Claire Aiello WHNT TV, Huntsville, Alabama Atmospheric Science Brown Bag Mini-Seminar, October 23, 2012
- 24. Fort Payne (KimPendergrass) Colbert Heights Mountain Looking East, (Carter Watkins) Lake Guntersville Monte Sano (Rebekah Bynum) Donegal Drive, looking west (Megan Hayes, WHNT) WHNT TV photographs Monte Sano (Jacks Camera Network, WHNT) Oklahoma Dust Plume Event over Huntsville, Alabama, October 19, 2012
- 25. October 2012 DustEvent
- 26. Oklahoma Dust PlumeEvent over Huntsville, Alabama, October 19, 2012 http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/mips/data/current/ceilometer/ Time-Height Cross-Section of Relative Signal Intensity from Vertically Viewing Ceilometer Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS), University of Alabama in Huntsville Altitude in km, time in Coordinated Universal Time (CDT = UTC - 05:00), intensity in false color Peak at ~17 UTC (12 N EDT)
- 27. EE DSS Tools:Data System Architecture • Data are accessible from the Air Quality Data Network (ADN) by the AQ Community Catalog • ADN is facilitated by the GEO AQ Community of Practice (GEO AQ CoP), including R. Husar’s group. • The generic client tools (red boxes) are for processing and visualization; used in many applications • Specialized Application Tools are dedicated to specific applications, e.g. event detection
- 28. Application-Task-Centric Workspace Example: EventSpaces Catalog -Find Dataset Specific Exceptional Event Harvest Resources
- 29. EE DSS Links CATT– General EE_CATT 121015_Montana_Dust Event 110414_Kansas_Smoke Event Screencast Anomaly Map
- 30. Navy Aerosol Analysisand Prediction System NAAPS by D. Westphal et al, NRL Why I luv NAAPS: 1. Assimilates satellite aerosol optical thickness and fire pixels 2. Provides 4D aerosol structure for dust, smoke, sulfate, sea salt 3. Open access to 10 years of global simulations (via DataFed)
- 31. Navy Aerosol Analysisand Prediction System September 11, 2011 Key: Smoke = blue Dust = green Sulfate = red D. Westphal
- 32. NASA Data forNAAPS Initialization Forecasting is an initial value problem: Requires the 3-D distribution of aerosol concentration at the start of the forecast: : Assimilation of previous forecast + information from remote sensing of aerosols Current capabilities: Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD; 2-D) (MODIS and MISR) Extinction (3-D) (CALIPSO) + Land/Ocean MODIS + Land/Ocean MISR Natural run + Ocean MODIS + land/Ocean MISR Multiple aerosol sensors are critical for assimilation.
- 33. Aerosol Optical Thickness– Aeronet The Gold Standard for Satellite Calibration
- 34. http://webapps.datafed.net/datafed.aspx?page=Aeronet/Aeronet_MODIS/AOT_MODIS_Aeronet_Bias AERONET Sun photometer– MODIS AOD Comparison Very low bias except in blue sites Kanpur, IN
- 35. VIEWS Sulfate –NAAPS Sulfate OBSERVATION MODEL SO4 BIAS
- 36. Goal: ‘Reconciliation’, ‘Harmonization’…’Closure’ Byiterative refinement of of Emissions, Observations and Models HTAP, 2010 Reconciling emissions, observations and models (EOMs), has been elusive EOMs are generally autonomous and quite separate activities Software tools are available to support EOM reconciliation But closing the EOM loop requires “interoperability” of people and machines
- 37. 4D Dust, Smoke,Sulfate Vertical Cross Section Views Vertical dust cross sections at about 120 (surface plume) and 1000 km (elevated plume). Knowing the vertical structure of smoke and dust plumes is critical to EE documentation The DataFed Browser now incorporates vertical cross section views
- 38. Long-Term Model Data2006-Now A significant fraction of the dust vertical column is in the troposphere and it is ‘global’ Most of surface dust is local and highly variable in space and time Emission Vertical AOT Surface Conc.
- 39. Satellite-Surface PM relationship TheNAAPS helps separating local and ‘global’ dust but much work is needed
- 40. OBSERVATION MODEL PM2.5 BIAS EPAPM2.5 – CMAQ Model PM2.5 Summer
- 41. EPA PM2.5 –CMAQ Model PM2.5 Bias Winter OBSERVATION MODEL PM2.5 BIAS
- 42. Tool to IterativelyReduce the Bias Actual closure to be worked out by the AQ community DJF JJA SON MAM Nitrate Low in DJF Add nitrate source Inverse modeling of VIEWS Nitrate Organics Low in DJF Improved smoke by combined chemical, satellite, space-time Fine Dust Low in MAM Add Sahara, local dust Dust and smoke BC for CMAQ – e.g. NAAPS Bio. Organics High MAM & JJA Reduce biogenic OC Adjust source trem NAAPS Dust, July VIEWS NO3 DJF CMAQ EPA PM2.5 – CMAQ Model PM2.5 Bias Winter
- 43. Many Thanks: • KariHoijarvi • Erin Robinson • Rich Poirot • Doug Westphal • Neil Frank
Editor's Notes
- #3 The Exceptional Event that triggered the fist regulatory response by EPA was the May 1998 Mexican smoke event. The color images from the NASA SeaWiFS satellite (louched in 1997) allowed the detection and following the evolution of the smoke event.Based on the record smoke impact on the PM10 concentration over the entire Eastern US, the EPA issued a memorandum to the States, as a precursor of the Exceptional Event Rule, promulgated in 2007.------------------Since time immemorial, smoke from forest fires, wind-blown dust storms and other ‘exceptional events’ have punctuated the air quality with extreme concentrations of atmospheric particulates and gases. However, historically the spatio-temporal pattern of air quality during such events was sparse and patchy. This has changed dramatically during the sensing revolution of the 1990s, in particular through the near-real-time availability of color satellite images. Satellites the became the primary sensory inputs for event detection and spatio-temporal characterization. Satellite observations were also responsible for formally including Exceptional Events into the AQ management process. When combined with routine surface-based monitoring data …In the past, the definition and documentation of events has been subjective, dependent on the analyst, the is event type etc.The routine overall characterization of detected events is accomplished by the rich real-time data through delivered through the Analysts ConsolesObjective event definition is now possible through spatio-temporal statistical parameters derivable from routine monitoring dataand their causes is still poorly understood and largely unpredictable.
- #14 The spatial distribution of EE flags attributed to Mexican and Canadian fires (left). EE flags attributed to prescribed and wild fires within the US (right). The time series below each map shows the number of flags throughout the country for each day. The spatial distribution of EE flags attributed to African and Asian dust. (left). EE flags attributed to dust origination within the US(right).
- #32 NAAPS general description. Species are sulfate, dust, smoke, and sea salt. Aspects impacted by NASA remote sensing products are specification of sources and initialization.Each term in the equation can dominate at one time or another. At a source grid point, S is dominant. One grid point away, advection could be largest. In a cloud R is largest. etc.Image is a composite of geostationary clouds, fires from FLAMBE (pink and yellow dots), and NAAPS aerosol plume forecasts (see legend). It shows 1) production and transport of anthropogenic aerosol in northern latitudes (red), 2) Saharan dust over the Atlantic being scavenged by two tropical cyclones, and 3) smoke from thousands of African fires transported to S. America.
- #33 NAAPS initialization benefits from the current 2-D assimilation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) provided by satellite remote sensing (MODIS and MISR) and also 3-D extinction values derived from the CALIPSO CALIOP lidar. The initial conditions are thus improved by assimilating these two parameters.
- #40 The August 2012 Western US smoke is a Continental-scale event.While the NAAPS AOT column concentration stretches over much of the continent (>5000 km), the smoke impact on the surface is diminished by about 1000 km. This indicates long distance smoke transport aloft. In fact the PM2.5 concentrations reported in Airnow, do not show smoke impact except near the fires in Idaho.