Presentation of the Air Quality e-reporting User Interface (AQUI 1.0) Wim Mol Presentation AQUI 1.0 Dublin, Ireland 24-25 October 2013 European Environment

Presentation of the Air Quality e-reporting User Interface (AQUI 1.0)

Wim Mol

Presentation AQUI 1.0

Dublin, Ireland 24-25 October 2013

European Environment Agency


Contents presentation AQUI

• Background of AQUI

• Redesign AQ-DEM

• AQUI principles

• Inter linkages dataflows B, C, D and G

• Inter linkages dataflows D, E and F

• Steps in AQUI

• Delivery dates XML files


Background of AQUI

• EEA tender EEA/OSE/12/008: Transformation software to support reporting and exchange of air quality data under Decision 2011/850/EU (e-Reporting).

• Some tender requirements:

• Export of XML dataflows B (limited to non-spatial information), C, D (only fixed measurements), E (only measurements), F (only primary validated measurements) and G

• Conform to the AQ e-Reporting data model & schemata and INSPIRE

• A familiar face of the user interface, maintain large part of the country-end in the current reporting for the EoI and AQ Questionnaire


Background of AQUI

• Awarded to consortium comprised of:• RIVM

• CACI

• Ricardo-AEA and 4Sfera

• The tool is named: Air Quality User Interface for e-reporting (AQUI)

• AQUI is a tool for e-Reporting data suppliers without knowledge of XML

• Interim tool for 2 years


Background of AQUI

B Information on zones and agglomerations & limited to non-spatial information

C Information on the assessment regime

D Information on the assessment methods & limited to fixed measurements

E1a Information on primary validated assessment data – measurements

F1a Information on generated aggregated data – primary validated measurements

G Information on the attainment of environmental objectives


Network

Station

Meas_configuration

AssessmentRegime

Statistics Attainment

Raw data

Zone

Environmental objective pollutant

SamplingPoint for Compliance

Redesign AQ-DEM


Network

Station

SamplingPoint

AssessmentRegimeAggregatedObservation

Attainment

Zone



PrimaryObservation

Base AQ information stored

Fixed Assessment Methods

Redesign AQ-DEM


Network

Station

SamplingPoint


Attainment

Zone



PrimaryObservation

Data flow B

Data flow C

Data flow G

Data flow E Data flow F

Data flow D

Reported in data flows

Redesign AQ-DEM


Network

Station

SamplingPoint

Data flow B


Attainment

Zone

Data flow C

Data flow G

Data flow E


PrimaryObservation

Data flow F

Data flow D

Sampling PointProcess

Sample

procedure

featureOfInterest

broader

belongsTo

Parameter (SP) featureOfInterest

zone

zone

assessment

Parameter (SP)

featureOfInterest

samplingPoint Assessment Metadata

Links between features in data flows

Redesign AQ-DEM


AQUI principles

• Based on: AQD schemata vs. 3.7c, Implementing Provisions, Inspire

• Functions• The underlying database is prefilled with historical meta information from

AirBase and from the Questionnaires

• Import/update information needed for data flows B-G

• Checks:

• Qa/Qc checks available for checking the primary observations

• Visualisation imported measurement data

• Overviews of imported primary observations and calculated annual means

• Export Google Earth kml file for checking the station coordinates

• Format and consistency checks

• Export data flows B-G in XML format for e_Reporting


AQUI principles

• Features• Consistency assured of links of features between data flows:

• Links in reported data flows are generated automatically• No information can be attached to undefined key links

• Use of prefilled forms:• To facilitate the import of Assessment Regime and attainments• To ensure information of used key links are defined

• Information included in database:• Networks, Stations and measurement configurations from EoI-2012• Zones, Assessment Regime, Sampling points used for compliance from

AQQ-2012• Codes defined for AQD-schemata (codelists)


AQUI principles

• Reporting and exchanging air quality information using e-Reporting (EEA Technical report 5/2012) • IPCC Guiding principles: TCCCA

• Consistency (links of features between data flows)• Accuracy, transparency (checking possibilities)• Comparability (comparison annual means current/previous year)• Completeness (management by change)

• Quality checks as close as possible to the source of the data to keep the feedback cycle as small as possible

• Access to the latest version of the meta information by prefilling the AQUI database.

• Error messages/warnings e.g. on mandatory data


1. Configuration fixed Assesment Methods

2. Definition zones

3. Assign Sampling Point for Compliance

4. Classification zones (Assessment regime)

5. Report Attainment situation zones: a. basis for defining attainment situation - observations - modelling results b. result attainment situation zones

Sampling Points missing?

Zones missing?

All sampling points defined?

All zones defined for env. Pollutants?

All sampling points used for compliance defined?

All zones for all env. Pollutants classified?

Inter linkages dataflows B, C, D and G

Aggregated observations


1. Configuration fixed Assesment Methods

2. Primary observations

3. Aggregated observations


Primary observations missing?

All sampling points defined?

All primary observations defined to aggregate?


Inter linkages dataflows D, E and F

Attainments


Steps in AQUI

• Steps to be taken:

• Update and check the meta information B (zones), C (assessment regimes) and D (fixed assessment methods) by export/import

• Import primary (E), aggregated observations (F) and attainments (G)

• Check the primary observations (Quality control, visualisation, overviews)

• Export B-G in XML


Steps in AQUI

• Defaults, responsible authorities

• Url’s files with zone information

• Responsible authorities

• Dataflow D (networks, stations and sampling points). 2 possibilities

1. Update meta information by screen

2. Export of networks/stations/sampling points in the database, update, and import.

• Data flow B

• Export of zone information in the database, update, and import.

• Sampling Points for Compliance (SPC)

• Export of sampling points of compliance, update and import

• Data flow C

• Export of assessment regime in the database, update, and import.


Steps in AQUI

• Dataflow E

• Import measurement data

• Quality checks, visualisation, export overviews for checking

• Dataflow F (aggregations)

• Calculation aggregated observations from the primary observations by the standard EEA calculation rules outside AQUI

• Import aggregated observations into AQUI• Export, update, import

• Dataflow G (attainments)• Attainments are calculated by the country outside AQUI on base

of the aggregated observations• Export, update, import file into AQUI


Steps in AQUI

• Export XML files B-G• Upload to CDR


Delivery dates XML files

• Delivery dates:• 31 December 2013: Data flows B, C, (D) 2014• 1 October 2014: Dataflows B-G 2013 data• 31 December 2014: Data flows B, C, (D) 2015• 1 October 2015: Dataflows B-G 2014 data

• After delivery the dataflows are loaded into the EEA e_Reporting databases. This historical information will be used to prefill AQUI for the next AQUI delivery.


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