Satellite Aerosol Products Workshop
September 25-26, 2018
NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP)
5830 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740
Tuesday, September 25
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks: JPSS Program (Arron Layns, NOAA JPSS)
Morning Session 1: Update on VIIRS Aerosol and Fire Products
9:30 – 9:50 Validation and Status of VIIRS Aerosol Products (Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA NESIDS)
9:50 – 10:10 VIIRS Enterprise Aerosol Algorithm Status (Hongqing Liu, IMSG at NOAA NESDIS)
10:10 – 10:30 VIIRS Fire Products from SNPP and NOAA-20 (Ivan Csiszar, NOAA NESDIS)
10:30 – 10:40 S5P TROPOMI Trace Gas and Aerosol Products (Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA NESDIS)
Morning Session 2: Using Aerosol Data to Evaluate Model Predictions
11:00 – 11:20 VIIRS/ABI Aerosol Data for Aerosol Detection, Monitoring, and Trajectories in New York State (Sarah Lu, SUNY Albany)
11:20 – 11:40 Using VIIRS/ABI Aerosol Data to Evaluate NAQFC Models (Ho-Chun Huang, NOAA NWS/NCEP)
11:40 – 12:00 RAP/HRRR-Smoke Experimental Forecasting System (Ravan Ahmadov, NOAA/CIRES)
Afternoon Session: User Tools for Aerosol Prediction and Visualization
Workshop Software Tools, Data, and Documents Webpage
1:00 – 1:20 NAAPS Global Aerosol Model (Edward Hyer, NRL)
1:20 – 1:30 NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) (Jeff McQueen, NOAA NWS/NCEP)
1:30 – 1:40 MONET (Barry Baker, NOAA)
1:40 – 2:00 BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework (Susan O’Neill, USDA Forest Service)
2:00 – 2:20 Remote Sensing Information Gateway (RSIG) (Todd Plessel, US EPA)
2:20 – 2:40 CLASS Tutorial (Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA NESDIS)
2:40 – 3:00 Using Panoply to Display VIIRS and ABI Data (Rebekah Esmaili, NOAA NESDIS)
3:00 – 3:20 NOAA AerosolWatch and JSTAR Mapper Websites (Amy Huff, PSU)
Wednesday, September 26
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks: GOES-R Program (Dan Lindsey, NOAA NESDIS)
Morning Session: Update on ABI Aerosol and Fire Products
9:30 – 10:00 The GOES-17 ABI (Tim Schmit, NOAA NESDIS)
10:00 – 10:30 ABI Fire Products (Chris Schmidt, University of Wisconsin Madison)
10:50 – 11:10 ABI Aerosol Algorithm (Mi Zhou, IMSG at NOAA NESDIS)
11:10 – 11:50 Status and Validation of ABI Aerosol Products (Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA NESDIS)
1:00 – 2:00 Satellite Continuity and Synergy Panel Discussion
Kelly Chance, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Edward Hyer, NRL
Ralph Kahn, NASA GSFC
Robert Levy, NASA GSFC
Afternoon Session: User Applications of Aerosol Satellite Products
2:00 – 2:20 Forecasting the Impacts of Smoke and Saharan Dust in Texas (Weslee Copleand, Texas CEQ)
2:20 – 2:40 Satellite Products for Operations and Data Analysis in Pennsylvania (Sean Nolan, Pennsylvania DEP)
2:40 – 3:00 Satellite Products for Operations and Data Analysis in Connecticut (Michael Geigert, Connecticut DEEP)
3:00 – 3:20 HRRR-Smoke Model in the Western Region in 2018 (Andy Edman, NOAA NWS)
3:40 – 4;00 MODIS AOD for PM2.5 in Epidemiological Research (Allan Just, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
4:00 – 4:20 Geostationary Observations for Initialization of Air Quality Models (Edward Hyer, NRL)
4:20 – 4:40 Dust Modeling and Validation using VIIRS and ABI Products (Daniel Tong, NOAA OAR)
4:40 – 5:00 Using VIIRS AOD to Evaluation NGAC v2 (Partha Bhattacharjee, IMSG at NOAA)