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ASPB AND CIMSS WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 25, 2014

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2014 Midwest and Central States Air Quality Workshop: Brad Pierce attended the 2014 Midwest and Central States Air Quality Workshop in St. Louis, MO and gave a talk entitled "Satellite Signatures of Trace Gases Associated with US Oil and Gas Extraction" along with Debra Kollonige from the University of Maryland (UMD). The talk described work being done by the NASA Air Quality Applied Science Team (AQAST) in collaboration with the Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), the Central States Air Resource Agencies (CenSARA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) to use Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) nitrogen dioxide (NO2) retrievals in conjunction with composite Day-Night-Band (DNB) imagery from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument to characterize changes in NO2 emissions associated with oil and gas extraction in the western US. ((R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov) 

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CIMSS Science Symposium: On Thursday, April 17, the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) held its 4th Science Symposium in the Union South Theater. The focus of this symposium was modeling efforts within CIMSS and potential collaborations with two speakers from other areas of campus. The speakers and title are: Steve Vavrus (Climate Modeling Activities),  Chin Wu (Modeling lake circulations, professor in engineering), Brad Pierce (Advances in Real-time Assimilation of Satellite Trace Gas and Aerosol Retrievals for Air Quality Forecasting),  Becky Cintineo (Evaluating the Accuracy of Model Parameterization Schemes in Convection-Permitting Ensemble Forecasts using Synthetic GOES-13 Satellite Observations),  Jun Li (A near real time regional satellite data assimilation system for high impact weather research and applications), and Brett Hoover (Global Model Impact Studies at CIMSS).  A follow-up meeting of a smaller group will be held to further consider possible directions and needs for CIMSS modeling activities. (S. Ackerman, CIMSS, 608-263-3647) 

Manuscript on Changes in California Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Submitted: A manuscript entitled "Changes in Nitrogen Oxides Emissions in California during 2005-2010 Indicated from Top-down and Bottom-up Emission Estimates" by Min Huang, Kevin W. Bowman, Gregory R. Carmichael, Tianfeng Chai, R. Bradley Pierce, John R. Worden, Ming Luo, Ilana B. Pollack, Thomas B. Ryerson, John B. Nowak, J. Andrew Neuman, James M. Roberts, Elliot L. Atlas, and Donald R. Blake was submitted to the Journal of Geophysical Research. The manuscript describes the use of satellite and airborne nitrogen oxide measurements within a four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) approach to show that California nitrogen oxide emissions have declined significantly between 2005 and 2010. Nitrogen oxide is an ozone precursor. (R.B. Pierce, E/RA2, 608-890-1892, brad.pierce@noaa.gov)

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