The H2020-funded projects CHE and VERIFY held a joint General Assembly between the 12th and 14th of March 2019 at ECMWF, in Reading, UK.
The meeting consisted of discussions on CHE and VERIFY work packages, collaboration opportunities, external lectures and working groups.
The summary of this successful and fruitfull event is available here.
A feature article is also available on ECMWF website.
Details
Meeting dates: 12th March 2019 at 9:00 (registration started at 8:30) to 14th March 2019 at 17:00
Location: ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Participants: CHE and VERIFY Consortium Members plus invited speakers
Registration via Eventbrite (closed on 21st February 2019)
Agenda
Day 1 (12th March 2019): Presentations and discussions on the work of the CHE project.
Day 2 (13th March 2019): Science presentations and discussions on CHE-VERIFY collaboration topics.
Day 3 (14th March 2019): Presentations and discussions on the work of the VERIFY project.
All days will also contain presentations from external invited speakers such as the European Commission on topics of relevance.
The final agenda is available below here, as well as all the presentations.
The event also included a poster session, posters that you can also download below.
DAY 1 - TUESDAY, 12th OF MARCH, 2019
| TIME | TOPIC | PRESENTER | PRESENTATIONS |
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration | ||
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9:00-9:30 |
Welcome by ECMWF Director General | Florence Rabier (ECMWF) | |
| 9:30-9:45 | Introduction to CHE+VERIFY GA and agenda of the meeting | Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF) and Philippe Peylin (LSCE) | download |
| 9:45-10:00 | Vision from the COPERNICUS CO2 Task Force | Bernard Pinty and Hugo Zunker (European Commission) | download |
| 10:00-10:30 | H2020 Research Projects support for Europe CO2 monitoring capacity | Monika Kacik (CHE Project Officer) | download |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-11:20 | Coordinating efforts on Reconciling top-down and bottom-up estimates - CHE-WP1 | Corinne Le Quéré and Marteen Krol | download |
| 11:20-11:40 | Discussion | ||
| 11:40-12:00 | Coordinating Efforts on Library of simulations for emissions and atmospheric transport - CHE-WP2 | Hugo Denier von der Gon and Jean-Mathieu Haussaire | download |
| 12:00-12:20 | Discussion | ||
| 12:20-12:40 | Ensemble-based simulations to inform data assimilation - CHE-WP1+WP2 linkages | Joe McNorton and Nicolas Bousserez | download |
| 12:40-13:00 | CHE-WP-Interactions | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00-14:20 | Coordinating Efforts on Uncertainty trade-off for fossil fuel emissions-CHE-WP3 | Greet Maenhout and Margarita Choulga | download |
| 14:20-14:40 | Discussion | ||
| 14:40-15:00 | Coordinating efforts on attributing CO2 emissions from in-situ measurements - CHE-WP4 | Julia Marshall and Frédéric Chevallier | download |
| 15:00-15:20 | Discussion | ||
| 15:20-15:30 | CHE - Posters speedy presentation (1min each) | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break + Posters | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Towards a prototype of a European anthropogenic emission monitoring system - CHE-WP5 | Anna Agusti-Panareda and Gianpaolo Balsamo | download |
| 16:30-16:50 | Discussion | ||
| 16:50-17:10 | International Stakeholder Coordination and Liaison - CHE-WP6 | Richard Engelen | download |
| 17:10-17:30 | CHE - External Expert Group feedback | Peter Rayner (from Australia) | |
| 17:30-17:50 | CHE - External Advisory Board feedback | Han Dolman | |
| 17:50-18:00 | Discussion/Recommendations | ||
| 18:00-19:00 | Cocktail + Posters | ||
DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, 13th OF MARCH, 2019
| TIME | TOPIC | PRESENTER | PRESENTATION | RECORDING |
|
9:00-9:10 |
Introduction to the Science Day | Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF) and Philippe Peylin (LSCE) | ||
| 9:10-9:30 | International Monitoring initiatives - Global IG3IS/WMO/UNFCC | Oksana Tarasova (WMO/GAW) | download | video |
| 9:30-9:50 | The European CO2 initiative in the international context | Greet Janssen-Maenhout (JRC) | download | video |
| 9:50-10:10 | Discussions/Recommendations on the international context | |||
| Uncertainties on the carbon cycle - satellites | Co-convened by Michael Buchwitz and Julia Marshall | |||
| 10:10-10:30 | Lessons learned in US (CMS) | Kevin Bowman (JPL) | download | video |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| 11:00-11:20 | Atmospheric inversions using satellite observations (synthesis) | Frédéric Chevallier | download | video |
| 11:20-11:40 | Discussions/Recommendations | |||
| Uncertainties on the carbon cycle - in-situ | Co-convened by Werner Kutsch and Han Dolman | |||
| 11:40-12:00 | Up-scaling in-situ observation | Sophie Walther | download | video |
| 12:00-12:20 | Forest carbon sink estimates from machine learning | Philippe Ciais | download | video |
| 12:20-12:40 | Impact of forest management on C cycle | Gert-Jan Nabuurs | download | video |
| 12:40-13:00 | Discussions/Recommendations | |||
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break | |||
| Improving uncertainties associated to anthropogenic CO2 emissions | Co-convened by Grégoire Broquet and Hugo Denier van der Gon | |||
| 14:00-14:20 | City-scale: lesson from US research activities | Thomas Lauvaux | download | video |
| 14:20-14:40 | Monitoring the CO2 emissions from cities using space-borne images of CO2 and co-emitted species | Dominik Brunner | download | video |
| 14:40-15:00 | Discussions/Recommendations | |||
| 15:00-15:15 | Posters speedy presentations (1 min each) | video | ||
| 15:15-16:00 | Coffee break + Posters | |||
| Other GHGs and CO2 co-emitted species | Co-convened by Maarten Krol and Peter Bergamaschi | |||
| 16:00-16:20 | Summary of observation based estimates of the GHGs (synthesis) | Rona Thompson | download | video |
| 16:20-16:40 | CO2 remote sensing, the role of aerosols, and benefits of dedicated aerolsol measurements | Sander Houweling | download | video |
| 16:40-17:00 | Discussions/Recommendations | |||
| Way forward | Co-convened by Vincent-Henri Peuch and Green Maenhout | |||
| 17:00-17:20 | Community Inversion Framework perspectives | Antoine Berchet (Frederic Chevallier) | download | video |
| 17:20-17:40 | Synergies/complementarities of CHE and VERIFY projects | Philippe Peylin, Gianpaolo Balsamo | download | video |
| 17:40-18:00 | Operational perspectives | Richard Engelen, Anna Agusti-Panareda | download | video |
| 18:00-18:30 | Discussions/Recommendations | |||
| 19:00 | Dinner | |||
DAY 3 - THURSDAY, 14th OF MARCH, 2019
| TIME | TOPIC | PRESENTER | PRESENTATION |
| 9:00-9:20 | Impact of the 2018 European summer drought on GhG balances | Ana Bastos | download |
| 9:20-9:35 | European Commission expectations/recommendations on VERIFY | Erwin Goor |
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| 9:35-10:00 | Project management status (deliverables, milestones, GA amendment, data base...) | Philippe Peylin (LSCE) and Stefanie Kirschke (ARTTIC) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | VERIFY-WP1: GHG MRV user requirement framework | Dirk Günther and Lucia Perugini | download |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 | VERIFY-WP2: Verification methods for fossil CO2 emissions | Hugo Denier van der Gon and Paul Palmer | download |
| 11:30-12:00 | VERIFY-WP3: Verification methods for terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks ans carbon stocks | Pete Smith and Philippe Peylin | download |
| 12:00-12:30 | VERIFY-WP4: Verification methods for CH4 and N2O emissions | Rona Thompson | download |
| 12:30-13:00 | VERIFY-WP7: Input to international programmes and society | Corinne Le Quéré and Werner Kutsch | download |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 14:00-14:20 | Anthropogenic CO2 emissions from existing and future satellites | Michael Buchwitz | download |
| 14:20-14:55 | VERIFY-WP5+WP6: GHG country reporting | Glen Peter, Roxana Petrescu, Philippe Ciais | download |
| 14:55-15:10 | Data integration and data flow for 2019 | Philippe Ciais and Philippe Peylin | download |
| 15:10-15:30 | Discussion on data flow and data synthesis |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:00-16:20 | Feedback from Advisory Board | Yasjka Meijer | |
| 16:20-17:00 | Plenary discussion: next steps |
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| 17:00 | Adjourn | ||
POSTERS
| TITLE | PRESENTER | POSTER |
| Monitoring and Forecasting the Impact of the 2018 Summer Heatwave on Vegetation | Clement Albergel | download |
| Towards an ECMWF's CAMS near real-time global surface flux inversion | Jerome Barre | download |
| OCO-2 XCO2 retrievals using the FOCAL algorithm | Michael Buchwitz | download |
| Exploiting sun-induced fluorescence and temperature anomalies to enhance biosphere flux estimates in an atmospheric CO2 inversion | Liesbeth Florentie | download |
| Bottom up natural fluxes of CH4 for Europe | Tiina Markkanen | download |
| Monitoring 2017 and 2018 Global Wildfire Emissions from Fire Danger to Atmospheric Composition | Mark Parrington | download |
| Multi-scale greenhouse gas flux estimation systems in support of Canadian carbon cycle science and policy | Saroja Polavarapu | download |
| European CH4 emissions from CTE-CH4 atmospheric inverse model | Aki Tsuruta | download |
| Anthropogenic CO2 emission uncertainties | Margarita Choulga | download |
| CO2 biosphere-atmosphere fluxes over Europe derived with the Jena CarboScope regional inversion | Saqr Munassar | download |
Getting there
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