Combined Aerosol Trajectory Tool CATT

Indicates the origin of air masses for specific aerosol conditionMANE-VU & MRPO

Tools in support of Inter-RPO Data Analysis Workgroup

Combined Aerosol Trajectory Tool (CATT)Example: Airmass origin for high (2.5*average) nitrate

Boundary Waters

Lye Brook Smoky Mtn.

Doly Sods

Triangulation indicates nitrate source in the corn belt

CATT Tool User Interface

Map View:

Superimposed GIS layers

Layer Controls:

Location selector

Parameter selector

Filter conditions

CATT:

Single web page

Rendering

Zoom, Pan, Point

Color, Size, Visibility

Next Process

Next Process

Why? How?

When? Where?CATT: A Community Tool!

Part of an Analysis Value Chain

Aerosol Data

Collection IMP. EPA

Aerosol Sensors

Integration VIEWS

Integrated AerData

AEROSOL

Weather Data

Assimilate NWS

Gridded Meteor.

Trajectory ARL

Traject.Data

TRANSPORT

TrajData Cube

Aggreg. Traject.

AerData Cube

CATT

Aggreg.Aerosol

CATT-In CAPITA

CATT-In CAPITA

There!

Not There! Further Analysis

GIS

Grid Processing

Emission

Comparison

Fast Aerosol Sensing Tools for Natural Event Tracking FASTNET

Analysts Console

Community Website