The CHE-VERIFY Joint General Assembly 2020 brought together all partners of the two projects to discuss scientific advances and project results of the year 2019. It was a VIRTUAL meeting with 5 slots of 2 hours teleconferences managed with the gotomeeting facility. 

Agenda

Day 1 – Tuesday, 7th of July 2020

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
VERIFY work packages summary
10:00 - 10:05	General introduction of the VERIFY-CHE General Assembly & practical organisation	Philippe Peylin & Gianpaolo Balsamo
10:05 - 10:18	WP1 Summary (8’)+ 5’ discussion	Dirk Günther & Lucia Perugini
10:18 - 10:43	WP2 Summary (15’) + 10’ discussion	Hugo Denier Van der Gon &Paul Palmer
10:43 - 11:08	WP3 Summary (15’) + 10’ discussion	Philippe Peylin & Pete Smith
11:08 - 11:33	WP4 Summary (15’) + 10’ discussion	Espen Sollum & Dominik Brunner
11:33 - 11:46	WP5-6 Summary (8’) + 5’ discussion	Han Dolman & Philippe Ciais
11:46 - 12:00	WP7 Summary (9’) + 5’ discussion	Matthew Jones & Werner Kutsch
12:00 - 12:05	WP8 – Key messages	Philippe Peylin
12:05 - 14:00	Lunch Break
CHE work packages summary
14:00-14:15	CHE introduction	Gianpaolo Balsamo
14:15 - 14:25	WP1 highligths	Wouter Peters
14:25 - 14:35	WP2 highligths	Dominik Brunner
14:35 - 14:50	Questions & Answers	Wouter Peters & Dominik Brunner
14:50 - 15:00	WP3 highligths	Greet Janssens-Maenhout
15:00 - 15:10	WP4 highligths	Frédéric Chevallier
15:10 - 15:25	Questions & Answers	Greet Janssens-Maenhout & Frédéric Chevallier
15:25 - 15:35	WP5 highligths	Anna Agusti-Panareda
15:35 - 15:45	WP6 highligths	Richard Engelen
15:45 - 16:00	Questions & Answers	Anna Agusti-Panareda & Richard Engelen

Day 2 – Wednesday, 8th of July 2020

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
VERIFY GHG synthesis
10:00 - 10:05	Introduction to the « GHG synthetic activity » (5’)	Roxana Petrescu
10:05 - 10:15	Short Introduction to the web site plots/facilities (5’) + 5’ discussion	Matthew McGrath
10:15 - 10:31	Presentation of the CO2 fossil plots (8’) + 8’ discussion	Robbie Andrew
10:31 - 10:51	Presentation of the CO2 land plots (10’) + 10’ discussion	Matthew McGrath
10:51 - 11:16	Presentation of the CH4/N2O plots (15’) + 10’ discussion	Chunjing Qiu
11:16 - 11:36	Summary of the synthesis papers (key messages) (15’) + 5’ discussion	Roxana Petrescu
11:36 - 11:56	Summary FactSheets construction & next steps (10’) + 10’ discussion	Sebastian Wunderlich & Dirk Günther
12:05 - 14:00	Lunch Break
COVID-19 and GHG emissions
14:00 - 14:12	Introduction (12’)	Werner Kutsch
14:12 - 14:27	Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement (12’) +3’ discussion	Corinne Le Quéré
14:27 - 14:42	Carbon Monitor daily emissions (12’) +3’ discussion	Philippe Ciais
14:42 - 14:54	China’s industry emissions dynamics under COVID (10’) + 2’ discussion	Bo Zheng
14:54 - 15:06	Urban eddy flux Towers (10’) + 2’ discussion	Dario Papale
15:06 - 15:20	Overview of COVID-19 CAMS activities (12’) + 2’ discussion	Jerôme Barré
15:20 - 15:32	OCO-2 and GOSAT XCO2 (10’) + 2’ discussion	Frédéric Chevallier & Michael Buchwitz
15:42 - 16:00	General Discussion and Outlook	Werner Kutsch

Day 3 – Thursday, 9th of July 2020

Time	Topic	Presenter	Presentation
Next steps for VERIFY & CHE / links with CoCO2
10:00 - 10:20	WP2 Measurement campaign (Russia and Germany) (15’) + 5’ discussion	Maria Makarova & Samuel Hammer
10:20 - 10:50	WP3 : Hilda + land cover and LCC over EU & New Biomass products & Eastern European Carbon Enigma (20’) + 10’ discussion	Karina Winkler & Martin Herold & Philippe Ciais
10:50 - 11:05	WP4 : The drought effects on CH4 and N2O (10’) + 5’ discussion	Dominik Brunner
11:05 - 11:20	WP4 : Community Inversion Framework (8’) + 7’ discussion	Antoine Berchet
11:20 - 11:36	WP1 – Links with Inventory community (8’) + 8’ discussion	Dirk Günther & Lucia Perugini
11:36 - 12:06	Next steps for CHE and link with COCO2 (20’) + 10’ discussion	Richard Engelen
12:06 - 12:09	Final Conclusions	Philippe Peylin & Gianpaolo Balsamo
12:09	End