Air Quality and Health two recent developments Hennie

Air Quality and Health two recent developments Hennie Kelder KNMI, de Bilt University of Technology, Eindhoven the Netherlands

20/9/05 Brussels GEO High Level Group Hennie Kelder on behalf of the UI WG • • Results from July 11 -12 meeting of the GEO User Interface Ad hoc Working Group Concepts for pilot GEO Community of Practice

Air Quality & Health Community of Practice The Public e. g. EU GEMS e. g. ESA GSE Atmosphere Promote

European developments • • October 2005 GEO HLG EC Fast track for GMES Atmosphere in summer 2006, fourth theme Concept GMES Atmosphere Monitoring Services (GAS) participants EC, EUMETSAT, EEA, ESA, National meteorological services and National and regional environmental services Scientific institutes

GMES Atmospheric Monitoring Service (GAS) GAS core service Four dimensional global fields (50 x 50 km, 6 h ) of • reactive gases • aerosols • greenhouse gases • GAS monitoring services for climate policy makers • GAS real time and forecasts for regional and local air quality service • GAS and science Proposal submission to EC early 2006, Start summer 2006

IGACO Implementation: Top-Down Meets Bottom-up WMO GEOSS Implementation Team Co-Chairs WMO/GAW & ESA IGOS Thematic Foci Other WMO Programmes WWW, Space and Cosponsored GCOS, WCRP Cross Cutting Issues IGACO-Ozone U. Trop/Strat. Chem IGACO- Aerosols Climate Chem. Interaction Observational Systems Secretariat: FMI GAW/IOC Secretariat: TBD GAW/NASA/TBD Assimilation & Modeling IGACO-LRTAP/Air Quality IGACO-GHG Cimate Forcing Secretariat: TBD GAW/IGCO/NOAA Secretariat: TBD GAW/UN_ECE LRTAP Product Delivery & Databases Quality Assurance & Validation Examples of IGACO-relevant national, regional, international activities: GEMS ACCENT Satellite-Programmes AERONET EMEP EANET WMO/GAW NDSC NATCHEM BSRN IMPROVE IAGOS/MOZAIC