1. WRAP Technical Support System for Air Quality Planning, Tracking, & Decision Support Tom Moore | Western Governors’ Association Shawn McClure | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere December 6, 2007

2. Acknowledgments Based on WRAP work 1997-2007 –Experience with §309 Haze SIPs submitted 12/03 –Need to distill key information for haze planning across wide variety of air programs in the West Thanks to: –WRAP Forums and Workgroups - Too many individuals to list all Attribution of Haze – Steve Arnold (CO) & Bob Kotchenruther (EPA-R10) Implementation & Planning – Tina Anderson (WY) & Mike Edwards (ID) Modeling – John Vimont (NPS), Mary Uhl (NM), Kevin Briggs (CO) Monitoring & Data Analysis – Marc Pitchford (NOAA) 100s involved – feds, tribes, states, industry, enviros –TSS Development Team – Shawn McClure (CIRA), Joe Adlhoch (Air Resource Specialists), Gerry Mansell (ENVIRON) & others –EPA funding –In-kind staff work from many agencies & organizations - 1,000s of hours Purpose of talk is to report out progress to date and plans for the future

3. WRAP TSS permits integration of monitoring, emissions, source apportionment, and modeling results for current and future air quality planning. Why? What? How? –Review data, outputs, tools Where? Future plans

4. Why does the TSS exist? What makes it different from from other “web-based data systems”? Designed to be a true decision support system addressing regulatory requirements of Regional Haze Rule Brings comprehensive and consistent regional data and analysis results to planners for each Class I area Presents information required for regional haze planning, as defined by air quality planners Integrates multiple datasets from regional analyses (monitoring, emissions, source apportionment, modeling) into displays and formats suitable for air quality planning Provides documentation and summary explanations of technical results Data are derived from projects and data support systems developed by WRAP members

5. What is the TSS? http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/TSS/ A decision support system for regional haze planning in the West, expandable to other air quality indicators and/or to additional geographic areas The TSS provides analytical results from data support systems and display tools for regional haze implementation plans (to improve visibility for the 118 Class I areas in the WRAP region). The TSS is a one-stop-shop for access, visualization, analysis, and retrieval of the technical data and regional analytical results - consolidating information about air quality monitoring, emissions inventories and models, source apportionment results, and gridded air quality/visibility regional modeling simulations.

6. VIEWS / TSS Overview

7. End-to-end Air Quality Data and Decision Support VIEWS / TSS Vision Acquisition Import Unification Management Manipulation Retrieval Visualization Analysis Exploration Search Source Apportionment Modeling Assessment Interpretation Planning Controls Regulation Tracking

8. Integrated System Solution Chart

9. Provide comprehensive comparison and analysis of monitored, modeled, and emissions data with an integrated suite of tools Enhance and expand decision support applications Enable providers to upload manage their own data & metadata Promote an open, extensible, service-oriented architecture Provide services, components, and tools to air quality developers Incorporate satellite and meteorological data Investigate climate change and epidemiological applications and perspectives Facilitate collaboration and development between organizations Goals and Development Plans VIEWS / TSS Future Vision

10. TSS Development (How? & Who?) Colorado State University – Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) Contractor for operations/development Tool design/implementation Project host Integrated with: Fire Emissions Tracking System (FETS) – Air Sciences, Inc. as subcontractor Visibility Information Exchange Web System (VIEWS) – collocated with IMPROVE at NPS-CIRA Air Resource Specialists (ENVIRON as subcontractor) Data analysis, design, training, & content development Direct support for interpretation of monitoring, emissions, source apportionment, and modeling results for haze planning purposes Separate feeder data support systems: Emissions Data Management System (EDMS) WRAP Regional Modeling Center (RMC) Causes of Haze Assessment (CoHA) project Coordination & management by WRAP Forums/Workgroups and staff

11. Where does TSS fit in? Now (2007-08) –Source of planning data & results for western haze plans –Implementation support Review and approval by EPA Annual data update cycle to track progress –Emissions –Monitoring –Periodic source apportionment, modeling, and control strategy analyses Basis of 60-year RHR program – states set goals, EPA partners with states to verify progress Version control to make TSS data use transparent

12. Future plans for TSS Future (2009 and onward) –Source of visibility progress/tracking data & analysis results for western haze plans –Development to support one-atmosphere air quality planning and regional control strategies Continuing haze plan implementation Regional contribution analyses and results for Ozone and PM NAAQS issues, supporting state and local planning efforts Analyses of mercury and nitrogen deposition Continuing annual data update cycle to track progress –Emissions –Monitoring –Periodic source apportionment, modeling, & control strategy analyses Integration of additional data (satellite, control costs, changes in energy supply, et cetera) Continuing version control to make TSS data use transparent

13. WRAP 2008 Workshops Members of WRAP Committees, Forums, and Workgroups, as well as members of additional organizations not currently active in the regional haze effort will meet to: –Identify strengths and weaknesses of existing data and analysis tools; –Determine uses and limitations of those data and tools; –Develop coordination efforts needed with ongoing and planned State/Tribal/Federal projects; –Discuss timing, effort, activities, and any needed changes in future projects by WRAP contractors –Document results for work planning purposes & next steps

14. WRAP 2008 Workshops, cont. Monitoring Data Analysis Workshop –2-day workshop, targeted for April will address monitoring methods, network operations, and data analysis activities for Ozone, PM, haze, mercury, and N deposition data Emissions & Modeling Analysis Workshop –2-day workshop, targeted for July will address emissions and modeling studies related to Ozone, PM, haze, mercury, and N deposition Technical Data Needs for Air Quality Planning Workshop –2-day workshop, targeted for September will bring forward technical data and analysis capabilities from the earlier workshops to address 2009-12 air quality control and management planning needs for: Haze plan implementation – how/what to do Defining data, studies, & results needed for air quality planning - ozone, PM, mercury, N deposition

15. WRAP 2009-12 Activities Track, report, and conduct needed analyses of progress for regional haze; Determine regional contributions to Ozone and PM health and welfare standards’ nonattainment issues at various scales; Understand and analyze the nature and causes of mercury, and nitrogen deposition/critical loads in the West; Assess air quality changes from emissions management strategies and programs; and In concert with emerging efforts to manage and adapt to climate change, fully integrate data for both energy supply and use as well as greenhouse gas emissions into air quality analyses.

16. Conclusions & Discussion Questions Where does TSS fit in with efforts by states/EPA/other federal agencies? Are there obvious functional limitations of the TSS or specific “smart” ideas that EPA would like the WRAP to consider for future development?

17. Contacts Tom Moore WRAP – Air Quality Program Manager, WGA w/ 970.491.8837 e/ MooreT@cira.colostate.eduMooreT@cira.colostate.edu Shawn McClure CIRA – Software Engineer, Research Associate III w/ 970.491.8455 e/ McClure@cira.colostate.eduMcClure@cira.colostate.edu Joe Adlhoch Air Resource Specialists – Vice President/Project Manager w/ 970.484.7941 e/ JAdlhoch@air-resource.comJAdlhoch@air-resource.com Gerry Mansell ENVIRON - Senior Manager w/ 415.899.0727 e/ gmansell@environcorp.comgmansell@environcorp.com

18. VIEWS / TSS Data Import

19. VIEWS / TSS Database Architecture OLTP: Functions as the “back-end” database Fully relational and in 3 rd normal form Used for data import, validation, and management Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server Data Warehouse Generation System: Extracts data from the OLTP De-normalizes and transforms data Loads data into the Data Warehouse Builds table indexes Archives “snapshots” of the database Technologies: VB, stored procedures Data Warehouse: Functions as the “front-end” database Uses a de-normalized “star schema” Used for querying and archiving data Automatically generated from the OLTP Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server 19

20. Modified: 11/10/2007 VIEWS / TSS Page Architecture