1. GEO Interoperability (Virtual) Workshop III: A Look Into the Future of GEOSS October 18-19, 2011, Webex Interoperability and Data Networking Facilitated by the GEO Air Quality Community of Practice Contact: Rudolf Husar, rhusar@wustl.edu

2. Earth Ob- servations Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science What is the tangible contribution of the Network? To facilitate an AQ data pool for diverse uses Measure & Model Earth Obs. & Modeler

3. Earth Ob- servations Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science To facilitate an AQ data pool for diverse uses Measure & Model Earth Obs. & Modeler EO Service Provider Discipline Scientist Health&Env. Analyst Decision Making EnvPolicy & Manager InfoProc. & Distributor Sci & Know Creation Decision Support Spectrum of User Communities and their Activities

4. Earth Ob- servations Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science What is the tangible contribution of the Network? To facilitate an AQ data pool for diverse uses Measure & Model Earth Obs. & Modeler

5. Earth Ob- servations Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Data Pool Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science What is the tangible contribution of the Network? To facilitate an AQ data pool for diverse uses

6. Data Hubs CIERA DataFed EBAS MACC VIEWS.... ACDISC AirBase AIRNow AQS DLR GISC LANCE RSIG +++ others AIRNow BlueSky CIAM INSPIRE PEGASOS SDS-WAS VIEWS …Others Earth Ob- servations Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Data Pool ABC AC&C AeroCOM AQAST AQMEII CCI-Aerosol PEGASOS TF-HTAP Others... ABC | AQ_CoP | B.GN | CHIST |CIERA | COST |CyAir DataONE | EANET | EGIDA | ESIP | EuroGEOSS | INSPIRE | MaleDecl | QA4EO Science Teams Decision Support Facilitators Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science The main contributors to the AQ Network are members of Integrating Initiatives/OrganizationsIntegrating Initiatives/Organizations

7. Data Hubs CIERA DataFed EBAS MACC VIEWS.... AIRNow INSPIRE VIEWS ExEvent Others MACC AeroCOM AQMEII TF-HTAP Others... AQ_CoP |CIERA | ESIP | EuroGEOSS |INSPIRE Science Teams Decision Support Facilitators Members of AQ CoP are Integrating Initiatives AQ CoP Motto: Connecting and Enabling Other Integrating Initiatives A self-organized, voluntary group promoting the use of Earth observations for air quality management and science What is/Who are the Air Quality CoP?

8. Networking Air Quality Observations and Models: From Virtual to Real Aug 23-25, 2011, Stomorska, Šolta, Croatia See Workshop Wiki for DetailsSee Workshop Wiki for Details, Contacts: Rudolf Husar, rhusar@wustl.edu; Martin Schultz, m.schultz@fz-juelich.derhusar@wustl.edum.schultz@fz-juelich.de Participants were practitioners of AQ data systems from Europe and US Managers and programmers of major AQ data hubs Interoperability and networking experts Participants represented 18 organizations, many Integrating Initiatives Orgs: CNR, DLR, EEA, EPA, FZ Juelich, JRC, NGC, NILU, NPS, STI, UNIDATA, WUStL TF_HTAP, ACP, MACC, Workshop Goals: Assessed the current state of the network Share best practices on interoperability Advance the state of the AQ Data Network

9. Community WCS Servers @ AQ Hubs Community Catalog linked to Gicat Clients at DataFed, Juelich, RSIG

10. Summary Current GEO AQ CoP activities: – An ad hoc international group of AQ practioners – CoP co-developed Community WCS Server, Community Catalog – Conventions, tools and best practices AQ Data Network (ADN) demonstrates narrow, domain-specific data networking with GEOSS infrastructure and process However, AND is still too fragile and incomplete for ‘real’ applications And the AQ CoP recognizes that “The road toward integrated data systems is littered with wrecks of well- intended attempts..”