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