Third GEOmon General Assembly
Royal Astronomical Society, London, UK, 18-20 January 2010
Meeting Report
The Third GEOmon General Assembly was held at the Royal Astronomical Society in London from January 18-20, 2010. It was a busy, interesting meeting full of excellent presentations, both internal and external.
In the internal presentations, both oral and posters, it was obvious that much great work has been done in each of the activities within the context of GEOmon. Perhaps all we need to do now is promote the achievements more so that we can highlight the significant progress that GEOmon has funded.
We were delighted to welcome all of our external speakers and we thank them for the quality of their presentations. In many cases they brought a broad and thoughtful perspective to the problem of climate change.
Frank Raes of the Climate Change Unit at the JRC suggested that we should protect our environment as we protect our children because it is fragile and in need of our protection. Ravi reminded us that 'climate change is intimately connected with other environmental issues and should be dealt with holistically'. Sergey Zimov treated us to wonderful photos of his homeland and gave us a fascinating talk on methane emissions from permafrost. Rob Koopman and Tim Haigh gave us another perspective on the interconnections and interactions between the European organisations and Beate Hildenbrand gave us an inside view of the World Data Centre for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere.
The full and final agenda can be consulted here.
List of participants by name can be found here.
Progamme book with abstracts here.
In the interest of openness and information sharing we have made all the presentations available for consultation.
Presentations - Monday 18th January 2010
Introduction by Philippe Ciais
Overview by activity of achievements for 2009 and challenges and plans for 2010
Activity 1 - Greenhouse Gases and Climate - Euan Nisbet
Activity 2 - Reactive Gases and Pollutants - Brigitte Buchmann
Activity 3 - Aerosols and Climate - Gerrit de Leeuw
Activity 4 - Stratospheric Ozone and Climate - Martine de Mazière
Activity 5 - Integration and Modelling - Michael Schulz
Activity 6 - Outreach - Sophie Godin-Beekman
Activity 6 - Data Centre - Kjetil Torseth
Gender Committee Report - Zoe Fleming, Univ. of Leicester
GEO, GEOSS and GEOmon - Rob Koopman, GEO Secretariat
CARIBIC Trace Gas Measurements - Tanja Schuck, MPI Chemistry
Presentations - Tuesday 19th January 2010
Air Pollution and Climate Change, Science and Policy - Frank Raes, Climate Change Unit, JRC
Effects of relative humidity on aerosol light scattering and its importance for the comparison of remote sensing with in-situ measurements - Paul Zieger, Paul Scherrer Institute (will be made available at a later date)
N2O emissions and air quality issues in climate adaptation strategies - A.R. Ravishankara, NOAA
When Cinderella thumbed a lift to the ball on Starship Enterprise and other stories - TIm Haigh, EEA
Learning what to integrate and when: perspectives of an ex-coordinator - Peter Rayner, LSCE
Global Methane – The monitoring challenges - Euan Nisbet, RHUL
Presentations - Wednesday 20th January 2010
Contractors Committee - Includes presentation on FORCE - Morag Logan, LSCE
Pragmatic observation operators for remotely sensed data - Jean-Christopher Lambert, IASB-BIRA
Posters
Evaluation of satellite-based aerosol products against sunphotometer measurements - F-M Bréon, A. Vermeulen, J. Descloitrês
Very Large Warming in the Antarctic mid-troposphere in winter: PSCs are implicated - H. K. Roscoe, T.A. Lachlan-Cope
CityZen: Megacity influences on Regional and Global Air Pollution and Climate - E. von Schneidemesser, P.S. Monks
The Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Properties from MAXDOAS measurements during the CINDI campaign - K. Clemer, C. Fayt, F. Hendrick, C. Hermans, G. Pinardi, R. Spurr, M. Van Roozendael
The GEOmon Distributed Data Base - A. Fahre Vik, M. Fiebig, K. Torseth, A.M. Fjaeraa
Effects of relative humidity on aerosol light scattering in the Arctic - P. Zeiger, R. Fierz-Schmidhauser, M. Gysel, J. Ström, S. Henne, K. E. Yttri, U. Baltensperger, E. Weingartner
Comparing free tropospheric measurement data of ozone with in-situ surface data for selected sites across Europe - A. du Piesanie, S. Henne, A. Piters
Satellite-LIDAR monitoring of Stratospheric Temperature: Impact of Regional Variability - B.M. Funatsu, C. Claud, P. Keckhut, W. Steinbrecht
NO2 VCD trends from Izana Northern Subtropical Observatory - M. Gil, M. Navarro, O. Puentedura, M. Yela, E. Cuevas
A New Constituting LIDAR Network for Global Aerosol Observation and Monitoring: LEONET - S. Lolli, L. Sauvage
Developing Tools to Assess European Trace Gas Trends - R.C. Wilson, Z. Fleming, S. Henne, P.S. Monks
