Aerosol Products from DAEDALUS Thematic Project
EVK-2002-00572
Delivery of AErosol proDucts for Assimilation and environmentaL USe
THE PROJECT
Atmospheric aerosols (tropospheric and stratospheric) are of great importance because of their role in long-range transport of pollutants, their impacts on human health, visibility, continental and maritime ecosystems, the
stratospheric ozone layer, and the Earth’s climate, thus requiring dedicated monitoring of their concentrations and properties at the European and global scales.
There is a good amount of aerosol data from ground-based or satellite-based instruments, with a strong contribution from Europe, but these information lack compatibility and the related expertise is scattered among a large number of
institutes. At the same time, there is not always a clear expression of the demand for aerosol products and the development of products is often technology driven. CREATE and DAEDALUS aim to bridge the gap between
technologically available aerosol products and the users’ needs of recent observations on a variety of time and spatial scales.
The goals of the DAEDALUS project are to advise on the optimum use of aerosol in-situ, ground-based, and satellite remote sensing data to meet the users’ needs, to deliver data and information to the users, to make proposals for
aerosol monitoring as part of the European capacity to be established for GMES and to develop the methodologies necessary for delivering operational aerosol products. Specific objectives are:
1. to compile existing aerosol data relevant to tropospheric and stratospheric aerosol monitoring,
2. to foster the dialogue between users and providers of aerosol data, and assess the users’ needs at the European level in terms of tropospheric and stratospheric aerosol properties,
3. to match the available aerosol data products with the information needed by users,
4. to make proposals for a sustainable monitoring infrastructure in order to meet users’ needs, including an assessment of the scientific, technical, and institutional efforts needed, in particular regarding operational products and
5. to improve methodologies for making optimal use of satellite data and for assimilating aerosol data in regional and global transport models as well as numerical weather prediction models.
PARTNERS
DAEDALUS is a project specially written for the first GMES call for proposal of the EESD. It runs for 3 years in parallel with CREATE and has started on 1st January 2003. 7 partners from 6 countries are implicated in the
project (also supported by ECMWF, Reading, U.K and the Ocean and Sea Ice SAF, Lannion, France):
LOA/CNRS /USTL, France, IASB, Brussels,Belgium, KNMI, the Netherlands, TNO-FEL and TNO-MAP, the Netherlands, NILU, Oslo,Norway,University of Evora, Portugal, IES JRC, Ispra,Italy
WORK PACKAGES
WP1
Matching users’ needs to availability and quality of aerosol data
EXAMPLES OF PRODUCTS
Demonstration system of aerosol data assimilation
Climatology of stratospheric aerosols
WP3
WP5
the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
Leader: Gerrit de Leeuw
E-mail: deleeuw@fel.tno.nl
WP2
Extension of an aerosol network of sunphotometers and network
sustainability
Mean profile of mode radius in µm versus time for SAGE II in the 50°N-60°N latitude band
Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille (LOA)
Leader: Olivier Boucher
E-mail: boucher@loa.univ-lille1.fr
WP3
Database and user interface for stratospheric aerosol
Institut d’Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB)
Leader: Didier Fussen
Mean profile of mode radius in µm versus time for SAGE II in the 50°S-60°S latitude band
E-mail: didier.fussen@oma.be
Climatology of aerosol index from POLDER
WP4
Intercomparison of aerosol satellite climatologies
WP4
WP4
Development of level-4 aerosol data
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
Leader: Gunnar Myhre
E-mail: gunnar.myhre@geofysikk.uio.no
WP5
Assimilation of aerosol data in transport models
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Continuous measurements of aerosol optical depth
Leader: Peter van Velthoven
WP2
E-mail: velthove@knmi.nl
Capo Verde
station
WP6
PHOTONS
network
Project management and co-ordination
Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, Lille (LOA)
Leader: Olivier Boucher
E-mail: boucher@loa.univ-lille1.fr
More information
http://loacli.univ-lille1.fr/Daedalus/
DAEDALUS Leader: Olivier Boucher
E-mail: boucher@loa.univ-lille1.fr
DAEDALUS Co-leader: Piet Stammes
E-mail: stammes@knmi.nl
CREATE Leader: Gerard Jennings
Email: gerard.jennings@nuigalway.ie
For more information please contact
the relevant work package leader