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Information - AW6.2 Environmental Meteorology - Global Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting (including GMES related issues)
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The atmosphere is a formidable vector and processor of all natural and anthropogenic gaseous and particulate constituents as part of biogeochemical cycles. Meteorological processes and systems determine for a great part the fate of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere. Thus, all atmospheric scales from local to meso-, synoptic and global scales will disperse, mix, transport and deposit pollutants. Environmental meteorology addresses the relationships and interactions between, on the one hand, meteorological processes and variability, and on the other hand, the chemical state of and processes in the atmosphere behind air quality.
Understanding, monitoring and predicting the state of the atmospheric environment requires improved approaches based on all available measuring techniques: ground-based, remote sensing, airborne and satellite-borne, while simulations and forecasts require advanced data-assimilation techniques to take full advantage of all the various measurements. More and more, Earth Observation (EO) technologies are powerful tools for monitoring the state of the planet and the global impact of human activities.
The session on Environmental Meteorology is divided into 2 sub-sessions to cope with the different scales of applications:
1) Meteorology and Atmospheric Pollution: from the urban to meso/regional scale
2) Global Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting (including GMES related issues)
Possible topics for sub-session 2 are:
· Atmospheric monitoring for global atmospheric issues (e.g., stratospheric ozone and surface UV-radiation, atmospheric composition and air quality);
· Forecasting and warning for extreme natural hazards;
· Intercontinental and inter-hemispheric transport;
· Megacities impacts on atmospheric pollution and climate change
· Long-range transport between local/regional scales to continental/global scales (i.e. both ways);
· Inverse modelling;
· Boundary layer-Tropospheric exchanges;
· Integrated system of systems (GEOSS, IGACO,…);
· Data-assimilation of satellite data and global data analysis;
· Integration of EO into operational monitoring and forecasting systems;
· Impact and monitoring of biomass fires;
· Treaty monitoring (CLTRAP, Kyoto, Montreal, ...);
· Meteorological constraints for developing integrated atmospheric services;
This sub-session will thus be a forum for presenting results of the GMES-projects GEMS and PROMOTE and EUMETSAT/SAF activities with strong connections with atmospheric dynamics, and to exchange ideas for future initiatives on global atmospheric monitoring and forecasting of the environment.
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