Delivery of Forecasted Atmospheric Ozone and Dust for a Public Health Decision-Support System - Architecture and Functionality

摘要

New Mexico's Environmental Public Health Tracking System (EPHTS), funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN), aims to improve health awareness and services by linking health effects data with levels and frequency of environmental exposure. As a public health decision-support system, EPHTS systems include: state-of-the-art statistical analysis tools; geospatial visualization tools; data discovery, extraction, and delivery tools; and environmental/public health linkage information. Through a NASA-funded partnership between the University of New Mexico and the University of Arizona, efforts are underway to infuse NASA Earth Science results into two existing models (the Dust Regional Atmospheric Model (DREAM) and the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model in order to improve forecasts of atmospheric dust, ozone, and aerosols. The results and products derived from the outputs of these models are made available to the New Mexico EPHTS. This paper describes details of the EPHTS Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) of interacting SOAP and OGC services to process and deliver these products.