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. Air Quality & Health Applications

3. AQ Obs. & Modles Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Data Pool AQ Benefits Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science Users need easy access to observations and models A major contribution would be a reliable, trusted data pool

4. Air Quality Data Network (ADN AQ CoP developed open source Community WCS server Used CF-netCDF and custom AQ conventions Installed server @ 7 data hubs Developed open source Community Catalog Used ISO 19115 and AQ-specific conventions Interoperable with GIcat and GCI ADN Data Pool Content: 20 Diverse, Distributed Datasets 250 Observation/Model Parameters Contribution as CORE data, AIP-4 AQ Data Sharing Network AQ Community Data Catalog

5. Summary AQ Data Network (ADN) demonstrates the application of GEO principles and GEOSS infrastructure ADN is still too fragile and incomplete for ‘real’ applications The road toward integrated data systems will be long, bumpy and littered with wrecks of well-intended attempts The main impediments appear to be human factors; the solutions will have to deal with turf, trust, jealousy…

6. Networking Air Quality Observations and Models: From Virtual to Real Aug. 2011, 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 Workshop Goals: Assessed the current state of the network Share best practices on interoperability Advance the state of the AQ Data Network Participants were practitioners of AQ data systems from Europe and US Managers and programmers of major AQ data hubs Interoperability and networking experts Represented 18 organizations, many Integrating Initiatives

7. Earth Ob- servations Emission Model Satellite Monitorig Network Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science Info system has to support users along the value chain: Data Distributors, Decision Systems and Science Teams 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 Gary Foley, US EPA

8. 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 | QA4EO Science Teams Decision Support Facilitators Societal Benefit Informing the Public Protecting Health Global Policies Atmosph. Science The main contributors and beneficiaries of the Data Pool are ‘Integrating Initiatives’

9. Air Quality & Health Applications AQ CoP needs to connect and enable ‘Integrating Initiatives’ HTAP, MACC, ACP, CyAir… Support Interoperability of People!