Third General Assembly of VERIFY – 28 and 29th April 2021

This General Assembly will take place online from 28th to 29th of April 2021.

During, the Third General Assembly of VERIFY, scientific advances and project results of the year 2020 will be discussed and presented.

Details :

Meeting dates : 28th April 2021 09:30 to 29th April 2021 18:00

Location : Online

Participants : VERIFY Consortium Members plus invited speakers

Registration : https://www.eventleaf.com/Attendee/Attendee/EventPage?eId=0UNDldJvwawrFYFGAtmgyw%3D%3D

Recordings : http://verify.lsce.ipsl.fr/index.php/news/third-general-assembly-of-verify-virtual-meeting

Agenda :

Day 1 - Wednesday 28 April 2021 ; Link to connect : https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/781703757

* 09:30 - 12:00 : GHG flux estimates (WP2-3-4)

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
9:30 - 10:20	WP2 : Verification methods for fossil CO2 emissions	Hugo Denier van der Gon & Paul Palmer	WP2
10:20 - 11:10	WP3 : Verification methods for terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks and carbon stocks	Pete Smith & Philippe Peylin & Matthew McGrath & Matthias Kuhnert	WP3
11:10 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:05	WP4 : Verification methods for CH4 and N2O emissions	1)Rona Thompson 2)Dominik Brunner 3)Aki Tsuruta 4)Pierre Regnier and Tiina Markkanen	Overview of WP4 New high-resolution inverse modelling with FLEXPART-COSMO Modelling atmospheric CH4 and d13C with TM5 CH4 from natural sources: lakes and peatlands
12:05 - 12:15	CIF: Community Inversion framework	Antoine Berchet & Rona Thompson	CIF
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch Break

* 13:00 - 15:30 : synthesis and outreach activites (WP5-6-7)

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
13:15 - 13:45	WP1: GHG MRV user requirement framework	Lucia Perugini & Dirk Günther	-
13:45 - 14:45	WP5 & WP6 : Reconciliation of GHG inventories; Prototype of an international GHG monitoring and verification system	Roxana Petrescu, Robbie Andrew, Han Dolman, Glen Peters, Philippe Ciais & Greet Maenhout	WP5 & WP6
14:45 - 14:50	Break
14:50 - 15:20	WP7: Input to international programmes and society	Corinne Le Quéré & Werner Kutsch	WP7
15:20 - 15:45	WP8: Data management and visualisation & last year extension	Philippe Peylin & Aurelie Paquirissamy & Géraud Moulas	WP8

Day 2 - Thursday 29 April 2021 ; Link to connect : https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/307017245

* 09:30 - 12:10 : Specific science talks linked to VERIFY activities

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
9:30 - 10:00	Atmospheric proxy/ffCO2 ratios - potentials and limitations for regional ffCO2 estimation	Samuel Hammer (UHEI)	Atmospheric proxy/ffCO2 ratios
10:00 - 11:00	Forest biomass & harvest
10:00 - 10:40	Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015 (Ceccherini et al., 2020)	1) Gert-Jan Naabuur (WUR): commentary 2) Alessandro Cescatti + Giacomo Grassi (JRC): responses	1) Concerns about reported harvests in European forests 2) Cescatti and Grassi
10:40 - 11:05	Developments toward spatially explicit GHG inventories (WP1-WP3)	1) Lucia Perugini (CMCC) 2) Martin Herold (WUR)	1) Developments toward spatially explicit GHG inventories 2) Biomass mapping
11:05 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:05	CH4 budget
11:15 - 11:45	CH4 budget for 2020	Shushi Peng (PKU, China)	Restricted
11:45 - 12:05	CH4 anomalies in 2018 in Europe	Rona Thompson (NILU)	CH4 anomalies in 2018 in Europe
12:05 - 13:00	Lunch Break

* 13:00 - 15:30 : Prospects, next steps, links to CoCO2,..

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
13:00 - 13:30	Reconciliation of IAMs and GHIs	Giacomo Grassi (JRC)	Reconciliation of IAMs and GHIs
13:30 - 13:50	EU inventory work and QA/QC in the AFOLU sector	John van Aardenne (EEA)	Restricted
13:50 - 14:20	2020 atmospheric CO2 growth rate	Ben Poulter (NASA, USA)	Restricted
14:20 - 14:40	Using ScienceBrief to help keep up with carbon science	Anthony J De-Gol (UEA)	Science Brief Overview
14:40 - 14:50	Break
14:50 - 15:20	Carbon Monitor initiative and results, including the recent US data	Steven Davis (UCI, USA)	Restricted
15:20 - 15:40	Links to CoCO2 and CAMS	Richard Engelen (ECMWF)	Links to CoCO2 and CAMS
15:40 - 15:50	Concluding remarks	All