2015-09-02 Tools Workgroup
Date: September 2, 2015
Time: 1-3pm MDT
Call in: 1-800-768-2983 and access code 4918837
IWDW Visualization Tools Workgroup
Agenda
Minutes
Attendees:
Kevin Briggs, Ken Rairigh, Chris Pennell, Rebecca Matichuk, Ryan McCammon, Mary Uhl, Jeff Sorkin, Gail Tonnesen, Ralph Morris, Leonard Herr, Mike Barna, Craig Nichols, John Vimont, Tom Moore, Shawn McClure, Dustin Schmidt, Rodger Ames (possibly others who missed the roll call)
Overview
This was the kick-off meeting with the IWDW Team and interested members of the WAQS Tech. Committee to engage Project Cooperators in IWDW visualization tool development and deployment. The call included a webinar with demos of five IWDW online visualization tools that display, and provide MPE functionality for, the modeling platforms supported by the IWDW. Desired outcomes from the meeting were to obtain feedback on the tools, and to solicit volunteers from the Tech. Committee in a visualization tool workgroup.Rodger Ames introduced the group and presented an outline for the call. A timeline for IWDW tool development showed progress made on IWDW tools starting in 2014 (largely tools adopted from previous projects), tools that have either been deployed or are currently under deployment, and anticipated milestones through the end of the current IWDW contract (mid-2016).
A smaller workgroup was proposed that willto work closely with the IWDW development team on visualization tools.
A template for Cooperator feedback was proposed that separated comments into three tiers; quick fixes, longer term development suggestions, and bug reports.
Demos:
Image Browser:
The demo showed examples of sensitivity analysis results for various model configurations, including met. (e.g. 2011b winter WRF), and PGM (MOVES 2014 sensitivities, GCBCs, NOx adjustments) configurations.An index of the available images for the 2011 platform illustrated the current organizational structure of the plots included in the tool, and provides a means to search the image archive. For example searching by obs. network generates the following statistics for number of images for each netowrk: CASTNET (1663); CSN (670); AQS (2549); AMON (99); NADP (792); IMPROVE (3329); UGWOS (126); CDPHE (60); WYDEQ (186), and images by State: CO (5811); UT (3697); WY (3590); NM (138).
Other examples for emissions (e.g. O&G vs non-O&G source regions), model sensitivity (e.g. MOVES NOx sensitivity), Model-to-obs and model-to-model comparisons were included in the demo.
The group suggested including O3 spatial plots from Gail's MPE, and images generated from external modeling studies, such as Leonard Herr's ARMS project.