Transcript User Forum - Eionet

GMES Atmosphere
European Commission - GMES Bureau
Michael Rohn
EEA workshop on GMES services and emission inventories,
10-11 October 2011
 GMES in general
 GMES Atmosphere and the User Forum
 Summary
GMES overview
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
Land
Marine
Atmosphere
Security Emergency Climate Change
GMES Regulation
Regulation on « the European Earth monitoring Programme
(GMES) and its initial operations (2011-2013) »
 With regulation GMES enters new governance and
operational regime
 19 articles describing rules for work 2011-2013
 Selected aspects
• 6 areas (atmosphere, climate change, emergency, land,
marine, security)
• Scope of GMES initial operations (GIO): Land, Emergency
• Funding of GIO
• Committee, User Forum, Security Board,
• data policy, security, …
The User Forum
GMES Regulation establishes the User Forum
• Dedicated body consisting of public sector users appointed by MS
• calls for a transparent consultation mechanism
Extensive consultation at two levels
 national level: linking with the appropriate user communities in
each MS and providing the national view into GMES User Forum
 European level: existing links to stakeholders to build consultation
process (DG-ENV, EEA, DG-CLIMA, …)
 Workshop co-chaired with DG-ENV
 EEA collecting views from EIONET workshop 12-13 October 2011
 EEA analysing needs related Emission inventories: today
 …
Tasks:
 For users to express needs and give feedback on the fitness-forpurpose of GMES services and products
 Support to derive service data requirements from user needs
 Give advice to GMES committee
 GMES in general
 GMES Atmosphere and the User Forum
 Summary
User consultation
pilot service had continuous consultation
 Validate existing information through GMES User Forum
Past and current consultation:
• external experts (IG)
• FP6/7 Project life cycle
management
• interaction with users within
MACC
• dedicated downstream projects
Next steps:
 27 October: preparatory workshop on GMES Atmosphere
 30 November: present conclusions to GMES User Forum
Preparatory User Workshop
Date: 27 October 2011
Objectives
Inform and collect feedback
 to take stock of the user consultation process that has been carried
out so far in the atmosphere monitoring domain;
 to take stock of capacities and solutions already developed in this
field by RTD projects;
 to seek views from a wide user community on the scope of the
existing pilot services in this field;
 to give stakeholders in EU Member States the chance to familiarise
themselves with GMES atmosphere monitoring activities and to
provide relevant feedback towards implementation of an
operational service from 2014;
 to discuss future user consultations on GMES
prepare for the official User Forum
Registration at:
ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/gmes/conferences-workshops/index_en.htm
2nd GMES User Forum
date: 30 November 2011
Presentation on conclusions
 From Helsinki conference based on expert group report
“GMES and Climate Change” - 16-17 June
 From GMES User Forum preparatory workshop
Atmosphere monitoring – 27. October 2011
Information note on
 GMES Marine Environment Service and its user interaction
Preparatory Workshop planned for January 2012, to be followed by
the 3rd UF in spring 2012
Existing user requirements
and emission inventory (1)
from MACC O-INT …
Downstream requirements
… maximum of information in emission inventory species concentrations (e.g. components
of PM2.5 rather than the bulk concentration). …
General expectations for the services / benefits
… Policy scenarios for future years: use of chemical boundary conditions, meteorology
including radiation, and emission inventories to nest own national scenario runs. For
services of this kind to be helpful, they must be consistent with existent European
policy structure (e.g. EU Clean Air For Europe (CAFE), Convention on Long-range
Transboundary Air Pollution). …
Suggestions for service extensions / new services
… access to the TNO emission inventory (Europe) …
Lessons learned from PROMOTE or GEMS?
… Improvement of TNO/GEMS NOx inventory necessary with respect to overshooting NOx
emissions in large cities. …
Existing user requirements
and emission inventory (2)
from Implementation Group report …
2.4.4.2 Scope / Products other than atmospheric composition
… An important category to be considered is the information on sources and sinks, which
is a) essential in determination of gridded information on atmospheric compositions,
and b) one of the key policy indicators. …
… There may be a number of related services envisioned such as validation/improvement
of sources - emission inventories as well as sinks (refinement of atmospheric
chemistry models, deposition etc.) through inverse modelling. They should be
considered in the development of GACS as supporting tools in providing information
of adequate and known quality. They should however at this moment not be
systematically considered as specific CS, since some users may develop them
as DS.
5.2.4 Emission data
… Emission inventory datasets are needed in all models of atmospheric composition used
in GACS and uncertainties in the emissions are one key factor determining the
quality of the GACS. Two approaches towards obtaining emission estimates may be
distinguished:
1. Emission inventories (bottom-up): …
2. Emission inversion system (top-down): …
Thus, while being a dependency as required input to models, providing such top-down
estimates on regional emission inventories in order to verify the bottom-up emission
inventories is also an important function and output of the GACS (see also scope).
Example for other urgent user need
Some national user …
… MACC … , or possibly assist with supplementary assessment of
natural sources of air quality, a data source we would like to
improve on.
… It is these statutory requirements which are our greatest burden in
terms of costs/resources, we so were interested to see if these
projects could be used in part to help us meet the requirements.
…
 most likely voiced at EIONET workshop 12-13 October, Bordeaux
 Feedback to preparatory workshop 27 October
decision model to help prioritisation
Rolling Requirement Review process - WMO
(WMO – http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/rrr_en.php)
“goal” = maximum requirement,
no improvement beyond
“breakthrough” = optimum
from cost-benefit perspective
“threshold” = minimum requirement,
below not useful
Note: original use is for observing system requirements
 GMES in general
 GMES Atmosphere and the User Forum
 Summary
from projects to operational service
Space infrastructure
S5-p
S4
S5
Operational service
User
Workshop
GMES Atmosphere
User
Workshop
GMES User Forum
obsAIRve
RTD (not complete)
FP7-CSA
PASODOBLE
ImplGroup
MACC
MACC-II
GEMS
PROMOTE
2006
2011
2014
2017
2020
Summary
Message from national User Fora:
potential users are not going to invest while future is unclear
Important for transition to operational regime

Define a stable service scope to initiate operational services
“cycle-1”

identify necessary modifications “Quick-Wins” to pilot service for
“cycle 1”

Outline modifications for service evolution
“after cycle-1”
operational service is a living thing
change requests and modifications will grow with increasing usage
Therefore:

Clear distinction between
essential to start
~ “threshold”
service evolution
~ “breakthrough”
Thank you for attention !
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