NOAA Satellite Air Quality Proving Ground
Annual Advisory Group Workshop
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Courtyard by Marriott Silver Spring Downtown
8506 Fenton St
Silver Spring, MD 20910
8:00 – 8:45 Check-In and Continental Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome and Overview of the Workshop
Amy Huff, Penn State
9:00 – 9:15 Update on the JPSS Program
Lihang Zhou, NOAA NESDIS STAR
9:15 – 9:45 Recent Updates to the VIIRS Aerosol Algorithm
Istvan Laszlo, NOAA NESDIS STAR
9:45 – 10:15 VIIRS Smoke and Dust Products
Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA NESDIS STAR
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00 Using VIIRS Aerosol Products in an Operational Environment
Hai Zhang, IMSG at NOAA NESDIS STAR
11:00 – 11:30 Breakout Session: Review of VIIRS Aerosol Products for Recent Smoke Events Worksheet and Questionnaire
11:30 – 12:00 Group Discussion: Feedback on VIIRS Aerosol Products
Moderator: Amy Huff, Penn State
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:00 Visualization Tools for VIIRS Aerosol Products
Hongqing Liu, IMSG at NOAA NESDIS STAR
2:00 – 2:30 VIIRS Products to Support Fire Management
Ivan Csiszar, NOAA NESDIS STAR
2:30 – 3:00 JPSS PGRR Fire & Smoke Initiative
Bill Sjoberg, NOAA NESDIS/JPSSO
3:00 – 3:30 ARL Partnership with VIIRS Products
Pius Lee, NOAA ARL/Daniel Tong, NOAA ARL
3:30 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 4:30 Forecaster Perspectives
Cary Gentry, Forsyth County (NC) Office of Environmental Assistance
and Daniel Salkovitz, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
4:30 – 4:45 Next Steps for VIIRS Aerosol Products
Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA NESDIS STAR
4:45 – 5:00 Workshop Evaluations
5:00 Workshop Adjourns