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

Global Monitoring for Environment and Security 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-for-purpose 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 Next steps: 27 October: preparatory workshop on GMES Atmosphere 30 November: present conclusions to GMES User Forum Past and current consultation: external experts (IG) FP6/7 Project life cycle management interaction with users within MACC dedicated downstream projects

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 GMES Atmosphere User Workshop 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”

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