The H2020-funded projects CHE and VERIFY held a joint General Assembly between the 12th and 14th of March 2019 at ECMWF in Reading, UK. The meeting consisted of discussions on CHE and VERIFY work packages, collaboration opportunities, external lectures and working groups.

Agenda

The agenda included oral and poster contributions as well as topical discussions, as detailed below. Day 2 talks were live streamed and are available for viewing. Presentations are available for download below. An article summarising the Joint General Assembly can be found here.

Day 1 - 12th March 2019

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
08:30 - 09:00	Registration
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome by ECMWF Director General	Florence Rabier (ECMWF)
09:30 - 09:45	Introduction to CHE+VERIFY GA and agenda of the meeting	Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF) and Philippe Peylin (LSCE)
09:45 - 10:15	Vision from the Copernicus CO2 Task Force	Bernard Pinty and Hugo Zunker (EC)
10:15 - 10:30	H2020 Research Projects support for Europe CO2 Monitoring capacity	Monika Kacik (CHE Project Officer)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20	Coordinating Efforts on Reconciling top-down and bottom-up estimates - CHE-WP1	Corinne Le Quéré and Maarten Krol
11:20 - 11:40	Discussion
11:40 - 12:00	Coordinating Efforts on Library of simulations for emissions and atmospheric transport - CHE-WP2	Hugo Denier van der Gon and Jean-Mathieu Haussaire
12:00 - 12:20	Discussion
12:20 - 12:40	Ensemble-based simulations to inform data assimilation - CHE-WP1+WP2 linkages	Joe McNorton and Nicolas Bousserez
12:40 - 13:00	CHE-WP-Interactions
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:20	Coordinating Efforts on Uncertainty trade-off for fossil fuel emissions - CHE-WP3	Greet Janssen-Maenhout and Margarita Choulga
14:20 - 14:40	Discussion
14:40 - 15:00	Coordinating Efforts on Attributing CO2 emissions from in-situ measurements - CHE-WP4	Julia Marshall and Frédéric Chevallier
15:00 - 15:20	Discussion
15:20 - 15:30	CHE-Posters speedy presentation (1 min each)
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break + Poster
16:00 - 16:30	Towards a prototype of a European anthropogenic emission monitoring system - CHE-WP5	Anna Agusti-Panareda and Gianpaolo Balsamo
16:30 - 16:50	Discussion
16:50 - 17:10	International Stakeholder Coordination and Liaison - CHE-WP6	Richard Engelen
17:10 - 17:30	CHE-External Expert Group feedback	Peter Rayner (from Australia)
17:30 - 17:50	CHE-External Advisory Boards feedback	Han Dolman
17:50 - 18:00	Discussion/Recommendations
18:00 - 19:00	Cocktail + Poster

Day 2 - 13th March 2019

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation	Recording
09:00 - 09:10	Introduction of the Science day	Gianpaolo Balsamo (ECMWF) and Philippe Peylin (LSCE)
09-10 - 09:30	International Monitoring initiatives - Global IG3IS/WMO/UNFCCC	Oksana Tarasova (WMO/GAW)
09:30 - 09:50	The European CO2 initiative in the international context	Greet Janssen-Maenhout (JRC)
09:50 - 10:10	Discussions/Recomendations on the international context
Uncertainties on the carbon cycle - satellites		Co-convened by Michael Buchwitz Julia Marshall
10:10 - 10:30	Lessons learned in US (CMS)	Kevin Bowman (JPL)
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20	Atmospheric inversions using satellite observations (synthesis)	Frederic Chevallier
11:20 - 11:40	Discussions/Recommendations
Uncertainties on the carbon cycle - in-situ		Co-convened by Werner Kutch and Han Dolman
11:40 - 12:00	Up-scaling in-situ observation	Sophia Walther
12:00 - 12:20	Forest carbon sink estimates from machine learning	Philippe Ciais
12:20 - 12:40	Impact of Forest management on C cycle	Gert-Jan Nabuurs
12:40 - 13:00	Discussion/Recommendations
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
Improving uncertainties associated to anthropogenic CO2 emissions		Co-convened by Gregoire Broquet and Hugo Denier van der Gon
14:00 - 14:20	City-scale: lesson from US research activities	Thomas Lauvaux
14:20 - 14:40	Monitoring the CO2 emissions from cities using space-borne images of CO2 and co-emitted species	Dominik Brunner
14:40 - 15:00	Discussion/Recommendations
15:00 - 15:15	Posters speedy presentation (1 min each)
15:15 - 16:00	Coffee Break + Poster
Other GHGs and CO2 co-emitted species		Co-convened by Maarten Krol and Peter Bergamaschi
16:00 - 16:20	Summary of observation based estimates of the GHGs (Synthesis)	Rona Thompson
16:20 - 16:40	CO2 remote sensing, the role of aerosols, and benefits of dedicated aerosol measurements	Sander Houweling
16:40 - 17:00	Discussion/Recommendations
Way forward		Co-convened by Vincent-Henri Peuch and Greet Maenhout
17:00 - 17:20	Community Inversion Framework perspectives	Antoine Berchet
17:20 - 17:40	Synergies/complementarities of CHE and VERIFY projects	Philippe Peylin, Gianpaolo Balsamo
17:40 - 18:00	Operational perspectives	Richard Engelen, Anna Agusti-Panareda
18:00 - 18:30	Discussion/Recommendations
19:00	Dinner

Day 3 - 14th March 2019

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
09:00 - 09:20	Impact of the 2018 European summer drought on GhG balances	Ana Bastos
09:20 - 09:35	European commission expectation / recommendations	Erwin Goor
09:35 - 10:00	Project management status (Deliverables, Milestones, GA amendment, Data base,…)	Philippe Peylin, Stefanie Kirschke
10:00 - 10:30	VERIFY-WP1: GHG MRV user requirement framework	Dirk Guenther & Lucia Perugini
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	VERIFY-WP2: Verification methods for fossil CO2 emissions	Hugo Denier van der Gon, Paul Palmer
11:30 - 12:00	VERIFY-WP3: Verification methods for terrestrial CO2 sources and sinks and carbon stocks	Pete Smith, Philippe Peylin
12:00 - 12:30	VERIFY-WP4: Verification methods for CH4 and N2O emissions	Rona Thompson
12:30 - 13:00	VERIFY-WP7: Input to international programmes and society	Corinne Le Quéré, Werner Kutsch
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20	Anthropogenic CO2 emissions from existing and future satellites	Michael Buchwitz
14:20 - 14:55	VERIFY-WP5+WP6: GHG country reporting	Glen Peter, Roxana Petrescu, Philippe Ciais
14:55 - 15:10	Data integration and data flow for 2019	Philippe Ciais, Philippe Peylin
15:10 - 15:30	Discussion on data flow and data synthesis
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20	Feedback from external board	Yasjka Meijer
16:20 - 17:00	Plenary discussion: next steps
17:00	Adjourn

Posters

Title	Presenter	Download
Monitoring and Forecasting the Impact of the 2018 Summer Heatwave on Vegetation	Clement Albergel
Towards an ECMWF's CAMS near real-time global surface flux inversion	Jerome Barre
OCO-2 XCO2 retrievals using the FOCAL algorithm	Michael Buchwitz
Exploiting sun-induced fluorescence and temperature anomalies to enhance biosphere flux estimates in an atmospheric CO2 inversion	Liesbeth Florentie
Bottom up natural fluxes of CH4 for Europe	Tiina Markkanen
Monitoring 2017 and 2018 Global Wildfire Emissions from Fire Danger to Atmospheric Composition	Mark Parrington
Multi-scale greenhouse gas flux estimation systems in support or Canadian carbon cycle science and policy	Saroja Polavarapu
European CH4 emissions from CTE-CH4 atmospheric inverse model	Aki Tsuruta
Anthropogenic CO2 emission uncertainties	Margarita Choulga

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