CEIP the new EMEP centre Katarina Mareckova, Robert Wankmueller CEIP - Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections TFEIP/EIONET Tallinn, May 2008

CEIP Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections CEIP Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections  Hosted by UBA Vienna  Main task Collect emissions and projections of acidifying air pollutants, heavy metals, particulate matter and photochemical oxidants from Parties to the LRTAP Convention. Make emission inventories publicly available Support UNECE /CLRTAP secretariat Prepare data sets as input for long-range transport models. Review the submitted emissions to assist the Parties improving the quality of national inventories.

MS inventories Parties to the CLRTAP CEIP (UBA-V) WebDab CLRTAP UNECE Secretariat EEA, ETC ACC RepDab EMEP SB Data flow modelers review Gridded data inventories testing Eurostat UNFCCC CRF Surrogate data Status reports EMEP EB Country reports Notification forms

Key activities Transition of the system from MSC-W to UBA – CEIP (Dec-Jan) Development of the webpage (Jan) Import of Parties submission into CEIP database ( Feb-March) Review Stage 1 – country Status reports (10 March) Gap filling of submitted data (April) WebDab released for internal use, gridded data (15 April) Review Stage 2 – country Syntheses & Assessment reports (31 May) Annual update of WebDab (31 June) Technical Review Report (summary results) (15 July) Recording countries comments (July/Aug) Stage 3 review (Sept/Nov) Adaptation of the system for the NEW 2007 Reporting Guidelines Set-up priorities for improvements in 2009 Presentation of review results during TFEIP meetings (May & Nov) Reporting to EMEP SB and EB (Sept & Dec)

EMEP system technical details & functionalities Operating system: Ubuntu 7.10, Linux Kernel: Version RAM: 2 GB, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU with 2,66 GHz Apache Web server (Version 2.2.4) for performing the database queries via the CEIP homepage Database server: PostgesQL 8.1 with 3 databases  CEIP DB (working database)  WebDab DB (via CEIP-Homepage online available data)  Test DB (database for testing of updates, improvements,..)  Backup of all databases is done automatically every week  Key functionalities  Access to Parties emissions (The WebDab database can be queried using the following links on the CEIP homepage) Emission as reported by parties Gap filled emissions and (Activity data)  RepDab Checks; Automated review - generation of tables and graphs (Completeness, Consistency, Key source analysis, Cross pollutant checks, Recalculation, Inventory comparison, Trends and time series)

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Summary  The transition of the system to UBA was successful, MSC-w provided valuable support  Deliverables are produced in line with WP, a few improvements of the system could be already implemented Challenges  Improvement of transparency and documentation of gap- filling & gridding  improve presentation of data included in WebDab  adaptation of the system to the new Reporting Guidelines  assess options for support to EECCA countries  set-up priorities for improvements