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Global Earth Observation and Monitoring
of the Atmosphere

 

Second GEOmon General Assembly
WMO, Geneve, Switzerland, 26-28/30 January 2009

Meeting documents

Practical information
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Agenda
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GEOmon project meeting (talks on the intranet, for partners only, if not otherwise mentioned)

    Welcome address on behalf of WMO [Len Barrie, Director, Research Department] (.pdf, public)

    Meeting layout and objectives [Philippe Ciais, CEA/LSCE] (.pdf)

    Reports on the progress during the second project year
    Activity 0 Coordination [ Christiane Textor, CEA/LSCE] (.pdf)
    Activity 1 Greenhouse gases CO2 and CH4 and Global Warming [Euan Nisbet, RHUL] (.pdf)
    Activity 2 Reactive Gases, Pollutants and Climate [Brigitte Buchmann, Empa]  (.pdf)       
    Activity 3 Atmospheric Aerosols and Climate [Gerrit de Leeuw, FMI] (.pdf)
    Activity 4 Stratospheric ozone and climate [Martine de Maziere, BIRA] (.pdf)
    Activity 5 Integration & modelling studies [Michael Schulz, CEA/LSCE] (.pdf)
    Activity 6 Outreach [Sophie Godin– Beekmann CNRS/SA] (.pdf)
    Activity 6 System architecture and Data Management [Kjetil Tørseth, Aasmund Vik, NILU, and Joerg Klausen, Empa] (.pdf)

    Hands-on demonstration of the GEOmon data centre [Kjetil Tørseth, Aasmund Vik, NILU] (.pdf)

    Recent achievements from the EUSAAR infrastructure project [Paolo Laj, CNRS– LaMP / UBP] (.pdf, public)

    GEOmon Gender Committee [Kerstin Stebel, NILU] (.pdf)

    Plans and visions of data harmonization efforts in GEOmon and beyond [Jörg Klausen, Aasmund Vik, Christiane Textor, Data Management Committee] (.pdf)

    Reports from parallel sessions on the priorities for the next 18 months
    Activity 1 Greenhouse gases CO2 and CH4 and Global Warming [Euan Nisbet, RHUL] (.pdf)
    Activity 2 Reactive Gases, Pollutants and Climate [Brigitte Buchmann, Empa] (.pdf)       
    Activity 3 Atmospheric Aerosols and Climate [Gerrit de Leeuw, FMI] (.pdf)
    Activity 4 Stratospheric ozone and climate [Martine de Maziere, BIRA] (.pdf)
    Activity 5 Integration & modelling studies [Michael Schulz, CEA/LSCE] (.pdf)
    Activity 6 Outreach [Sophie Godin– Beekmann CNRS/SA] (.pdf)
    Activity 6 System architecture and Data Management [Kjetil Tørseth, Aasmund Vik, NILU, and Joerg Klausen, Empa] (.pdf)

    Trends in European trace gases: background and peak values [Zoe Fleming, Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester] (.pdf, public)

    Long Term Trends in Stratospheric NOy and Halogen Species [Martyn Chipperfield, ULEEDS] (.pdf, public)

    Depletion of ozone and enhancements of water vapour during the major sudden stratospheric warming event in February 08 [Niklaus Kämpfer, University of Bern] (.pdf, public)

    What is the horizontal resolution of a limb sounder? [Thomas von Clarmann, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe und Universität Karlsruhe] (.pdf, public)

    Contractors’ Committee meeting (.pdf)

Talks from GEOMON/IMECC joint meeting (publicly available below and at the meeting web site)

    European chemical weather and climate from integrating observations

    • Introduction of GEOMON and IMECC projects (.pdf)
      Peter Rayner, CEA/LSCE, France

    • Coupling in the Earth System between global carbon cycle and atmospheric components (.pdf)
      Philippe Ciais, CEA/LSCE, France

    Ground based remote sensing of greenhouse gases (.pdf)
    Thorsten Warneke, University of Bremen, Germany

    Assessment of parameters reflecting site representativeness (.pdf)
    Stephan Henne, Empa, Switzerland

    GMES/Kopernikus Atmospheric Service (.pdf)
    Philippe Waldteufel, Service d'Aeronomie, France

    Arctic methane - will the warming feed the warming? (.pdf)
    Rebecca Fisher, Department of Earth Sciences, RHUL, United Kingdom

    A perspective on the global carbon cycle from trends in atmospheric CO2 and O2 (.pdf)
    Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

    Climate change and the economy (.pdf)
    Renaud Crassous, Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Developpement, France

    Overview of WMO activities of relevance to GEOmon and IMECC (.pdf)
    Len Barrie, Director, Research Department, WMO, Switzerland

    Overview of WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) programme (.pdf)
    Liisa Jalkanen, Chief, Atmospheric Environment Research Division, Research Department, WMO, Switzerland

    On the use of the NRT CO2 data (.pdf)
    Michel Ramonet, CEA/LSCE, France

    On the use of air quality monitoring networks for the evaluation of nitrogen oxide emission inventories (.pdf)
    Igor Konovalov, LISA/CNRS, France

    Quantitative design of observational networks for the global carbon cycle (.pdf)
    Thomas Kaminski, Fastopt, Germany

    GEOmon goodbye and Todo after the meeting (.pdf, intranet)

Posters publicly available

  • Homogenization of UV-Vis reprocessing for ozone (.pdf)
    A. Griesfeller, F. Goutail, F. Hendrick, D. Ionov, M. Pastel, A. Pazmiño, J.-P. Pommereau, M. Van Roozendael
  • Plans and visions of data harmonization efforts in GEOmon and beyond (.pdf)
    J. Klausen, C. Textor, A. Vik, P. Ciais, P. Keckhut, P. Rayner, M. De Maziere and GEOmon Data Management Committee
  • Stratospheric Temperature Monitoring: Impact of Temporal Sampling (.pdf)
    Beatriz M. Funatsu, Chantal Claud, and Philippe Keckhut
  • The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosols from Southern Africa (.pdf)
    C. Textor, M. Schulz, F.-M.BrÈon, M. Labonne, A. Cozic, J. Griesfeller, S. Kinne & AeroCom modellers
  • Long-term ground-based UV-visible observations of stratospheric BrO at 60°N, 28°N, and 45°S reveal a decline (.pdf)
    F. Hendrick, P. V. Johnston, O. Puentedura, M. De Mazière, M. Gil, K. Kreher, and M. Van Roozendael
  • ICARE: Data And Services In Support Of Cloud And Aerosol Research (.pdf)
    J. Descloitres, J.-M. Nicolas, and the ICARE Team
  • Effects of realtive humidity on aerosol light scattering, Part I (.pdf)
    P. Zieger, E. Weingartner, R. Schmidhauser, M. Gysel, L. Kammermann, S. G. Jennings, and U. Baltensperger
  • Effects of realtive humidity on aerosol light scattering, Part II - Measurements in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen (.pdf)
    P. Zieger, R. Schmidhauser, E. Weingartner, J. Ström, and U. Baltensperger
  • Increase of total stratospheric NO2 in the tropics after 2001 (.pdf)
    M. Pastel, F. Goutail, J.-P. Pommereau, A. Pazmiño, with G. Held

List of participants (on the intranet, for partners only)
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Abstracts
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Questionnaires: please fill these out as soon as possible and send them to the project office.

Contractors Committee
Please click here to download the CC documents (on the intranet, for partners only)

Annual Report
Please click here to download the following documents (on the intranet, for partners only):

  • reporting instructions
  • templates for the scientific activity reports and the 18 months planning
  • list of deliverables and milestones
  • FAQ

Contract documents
Please click here to download the Description of work, etc. (on the intranet, for partners only)

Impressions from the meeting
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Kind regards,

The GEOmon coordination team

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