Monitoring & Forecasting: AQ Status and Pattern

Purpose: To show the current and forecast air quality through a multi-panel console

Background: Air quality is monitored by a variety of monitors at the surface and on satellites. The data are accessible from a large array of distributed providers, but they are in different formats and use various access procedures.

Browser Tool: The status and pattern will be shown through a multi-panel console that displays the current air quality as measured by different satellite and surface sensors and simulated by forecast models.

Usuage: On regular basis, the user monitors the pattern of AQ air quality through maps and time charts of key indicators, like ozone and PM2.5. When an ‘interesting’ event emerges, she drills down to higher space-time resolution, examines more parameters, explores the forecast and possibly alerts others.

Services: Each data set is accessed through WMS/WCS/WFS, Portray, Overlaid, augmented by data wrappers and adopters

Service Integration:A special client that displays data on multiple panels, allows zoom and pan, in space and time.

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