Post on 27-Mar-2015
Air Quality and Health
two recent developments
Hennie Kelder
KNMI, de BiltUniversity of Technology, Eindhoventhe Netherlands
20/9/05 Brussels GEO High Level Group
Hennie Kelder on behalf of the UI WG
• Results from July 11-12 meeting of the GEO User Interface Ad hoc Working Group
• Concepts for pilot GEO Community of Practice
Air Quality & HealthCommunity of Practice
The Public
e.g. EU GEMS
e.g. ESA GSE Atmosphere Promote
European developments
• October 2005 GEO HLG EC Fast track for GMES Atmosphere in summer 2006,
fourth theme• Concept GMES Atmosphere Monitoring Services (GAS) participants
EC, EUMETSAT, EEA, ESA, National meteorological services and
National and regional environmental services Scientific institutes
GMES Atmospheric Monitoring Service (GAS) GAS core service Four dimensional global fields (50 x 50 km, 6h ) of
• reactive gases • aerosols• greenhouse gases
• GAS monitoring services for climate policy makers• GAS real time and forecasts for regional and local air
quality service • GAS and science
Proposal submission to EC early 2006, Start summer 2006
IGACO Implementation:Top-Down Meets Bottom-up
Examples of IGACO-relevant national, regional, international activities:
Satellite-Programmes IAGOS/MOZAICIMPROVENATCHEM
GEMS ACCENT WMO/GAW NDSCEANETEMEPAERONET
BSRN
IGACO-LRTAP/Air Quality
Secretariat: TBDGAW/UN_ECE LRTAP
IGACO-GHGCimate Forcing
Secretariat:TBDGAW/IGCO/NOAA
Implementation TeamCo-Chairs
WMO/GAW & ESA
IGACO-OzoneU. Trop/Strat. ChemSecretariat: FMI
GAW/IOC
WMO
IGACO- AerosolsClimate Chem. Interaction
Secretariat:TBDGAW/NASA/TBD
GEOSS Other WMO Programmes WWW, Space and Co-
sponsored GCOS, WCRPIGOS
Cross Cutting IssuesThematic Foci
Observational Systems
Assimilation & Modeling
Product Delivery & Databases
Quality Assurance & Validation