Draft agenda for workshop
GMES services and emission inventories
at the European Environment Agency
Copenhagen, Denmark
10-11 October 2011
Purpose of the workshop
This workshop brings together the emission inventory, satellite observation, in-situ observation and
atmospheric modelling communities. This with the aim to showcase existing collaboration and activities as
well as to highlight options where in the near future inventories could support GMES services and where
GMES services and other observational datasets could improve emission inventory information for science
and policy. As shown in the agenda below the workshop will be organized around specific themes and
questions and the results of the discussion and presentations will be combined into an EEA technical report
highlighting existing and potential linkages between inventory data, GMES services and observational
datasets together with a list of requirements how to improve the linkages between datasets and
communities.
For more information/registration, please visit: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/events/GMES%20workshop/
Organizing committee:
Laurence Rouïl (INERIS, ETC/ACM)
Catherine Brytygier (EEA, meeting secretary)
John van Aardenne (EEA)
Justin Goodwin (AETHER, UK; ETC/ACM
Peter de Smet (RIVM, ETC/ACM)
For questions please contact: catherine.brytygier@eea.europa.eu
Agenda (status 23.09.2011)
Day 1
08:3009:00
Monday 10 October
Registration
Session 1: Introduction (09:00-10:30)
Welcome and introduction to the workshop (purpose)
John van Aardenne (EEA) and Justin
Goodwin (AETHER, UK; ETC/ACM)
Overview of GMES activities
Michael Rohn (DG Enterprise and
Industry, GMES Bureau)
GMES in-situ data
Tim Haigh (EEA)
GMES satellite data: The possible usage of satellite measurements to
improve emission inventories - the ESA Globemission project
Claus Zehner (ESA)
Theme 1: Priorities for emissions inventories to improve their input to the GMES services and
modelling activities. Link with available regulatory emission data.
Discussion and exchange of ideas for improvement of emission inventories so that they can provide
an improved service to GMES (and the modelling community):
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What is the mismatch between available emission inventory data and the GMES requirements?
What options are there for us to improve these mismatches (scientific, legal/reporting
requirement, technology)?
What role could be played by national inventory reporting under the EU Monitoring Mechanism,
National Emissions Ceiling Directive and UNECE?
What other scientific projects (R&D) and dissemination of relevant knowledge could be
valuable?
The outcome of the sessions under Theme 1 will be used in an EEA technical report describing a
detailed prioritised set of requirements on emission inventory data to be used for GMES and
modelling services, an overview of available emission information and identification of gaps and
solutions. The presentations and discussion are organized in the following sessions.
Session 2: GMES applications, atmospheric model community activities and their requirements for
emission inventory data (10:30-13:00)
MACC project and the GMES atmosphere services
Vincent Henri Peuch (Meteo France)
How has GMES services implementation changed the work on
emission inventories (Requirements on emission inventory data)
Leonor Tarrason (NILU, NO)
Use and development of emission inventory for research projects
Claire Granier (LATMOS, FR)
Summary of and discussion around highlighted successes and
improvement needs.
Session 3: Emissions inventories in GMES projects. Challenges and successes. (14.00-17.00)
MACC inventory
Hugo Denier van der Gon (TNO, NL)
Downscaling issues: City modelling/city inventories
Julio Lumbreras Martín(Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid)
Atmospheric Emission Modelling: From Inventories to Air Quality
Model Grids
Nele Veldeman (Vito, BE)
Impact of various emission inventories on modelling results; impact
on the use of the GMES products
Laurence Rouïl (INERIS, FR; ETC/ACM)
Summary of and discussion around highlighted successes and
improvement needs.
Day 2
Tuesday 11 October
Session 4: What role could be played by official national inventories and what steps are needed to
make this information available on suitable spatial and temporal scale? How to be sure about
consistency between regulatory emission inventories and research or operational ones. (09:0011:00)
Overview of official national inventory data and requirements on
spatial and temporal allocation
Martin Adams (EEA, co-chair TFEIP)
How official national inventory data is used as input to EMEP is
models (gridded, temporal, speciation).
Katarina Mareckova (EMEP CEIP)
Comparison of E-PRTR spatial allocation of diffuse emissions sources
with high resolution national emission inventories, example The
Netherlands
Wim van der Maas (RIVM, NL)
Summary of and discussion around highlighted successes and
improvement needs.
Theme 2: GMES services for verification and quantification of emissions inventories: Existing and
potential application of GMES satellite and in-situ monitoring data to improve emission inventory
(and air quality) information for science and policy application.
Presentation of recent studies, discussion and exchange of ideas aimed at:
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Identifying GMES observational datasets that can be immediately applied to improve emission
inventory (and air quality) information for science and policy application
Evaluation of existing and forthcoming GMES observational datasets that are not yet mature or
existing but that can potentially be applied by the emission inventory community and policy
makers.
The outcome of sessions under Theme 2 will be used in an EEA technical report describing a set of
requirements for GMES observational data making them suitable for the identified emission
inventory improvement purposes. The presentations and discussion are organised in the following
sessions:
Session 5: Verification of emissions inventories (11:00-13:00): To what extend are we able to verify
or provide independent national emission inventory data through combining GMES observational
datasets and atmospheric chemistry modelling? For which pollutants and sectors can techniques
such as inverse modelling be applied for an independent check of reported national emission
inventory data and at what scale?
F-gases emissions through inverse modelling
Stefan Reimann (EMPA)
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions through inverse modelling
Frédéric Chevallier (ISCE/IPSL, FR)
Air Pollutant and greenhouse emissions via inverse modelling, the
UK experience
Alistair Manning (UK Metoffice)
Summary of and discussion around highlighted successes and
improvement needs.
Session 6: Quantification of emissions sources (14:00-16:00): To what extend are we able to use
observational dataset to quantify emissions from sources where traditional emission factor
approaches have not been able to quantify these well or where (up-to-date) national inventory data
is missing? For example, natural vs. anthropogenic emissions, emissions in countries where
inventory data is out-dated or incomplete?
Forest fire NRT emissions
Johannes Kaiser (ECMWF, UK)
Emissions of crustal material in air quality forecast systems:
Use of satellite observations
Laurent Menut (IPSL/LMD, FR)
The existing and potential role of earth observation in the
quantification of emissions from land-use change and forestry
Speaker to be confirmed
'Trends in ship NOx emissions observed from space
Folkert Boersma (KNMI, NL)
Summary of and discussion around highlighted successes and
improvement needs
Closure of the meeting