Monitoring and Assessment of Regional air quality in China using space Observations Project Of Long-term sino-european co-Operation FP7-Space
Air quality Shenyang 8 November Xinhua News agency: Shenyang reported severe air pollution on 8 Nov., with the reading of PM2.5 at 7 a.m. was 864.
Summary MarcoPolo Collaborative Project of FP7-Space (EU) January 2014 – December 2016 Objectives: Improved air quality modelling/forecasting in China by: –New emission inventory Emission estimates from satellites Statistical information from the ground (GIS, MEIC) –Monitoring, validation, and air quality studies Strengthening of co-operation between China and Europe Dissemination of end products in cooperation with EU project Panda on web portal
Satellite retrievals HCHO, GOME-2 A AATSR AOD Derived satellite products for: NO 2, HCHO, CHOCHO, O 3, SO 2, and aerosols
Emission Estimates from space Based on satellite observations emission estimates will be derived for of the key species in air pollution: VOC Aerosol NOx SO 2 CO
»Top-down emissions: »monthly emissions of several species »at 0.25° or 0.5° resolution »estimates using satellite data »Bottom-up emissions: »monthly emissions of several species »at 0.25° resolution »MEIC (bottom-up approach) => »MarcoPolo emission database: »Combining top-down with bottom-up databases »Downscaling to high resolution Emission Inventory Satellite based NOx emissions East China Source: KNMI Bottom-up NOx emissions transport China Source: THU
MarcoPolo partners Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), The Netherlands Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB-BIRA), Belgium Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Danmark Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland Institute of Atmosphere Physics (IAP-CAS), P.R. China IsardSAT (ISAT), Spain National Observatory Athens (NOA), Greece Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (HIPS-AIOFM), P.R. China Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands Peking University (PKU), P.R. China Tsinghua University (THU), P.R. China Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium London Metropolitan University (LMU), UK