Draft Agenda for the Second Meeting of the Task Force on Measurement and Modelling

Joint session TFMM and EIONET

Wednesday 30 May 2001

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome from Ministry of Environment (M. Slokar, State Secretary)
9:10 - 9:15 Opening meeting (chair TFMM)
9:15 - 9:35 Monitoring and assessment in Europe: joining forces (Roel van Aalst)
9:35 - 9:45 EIONET information: EUROAIRNET (StL)
overview (goals, criteria, current status)
9:45 - 9:55 EIONET information: data tools (WM)
descriptions of tools available at EEA and ETC potentially useful for the EMEP community: AIRBASE and AIRVIEW; Model Doc System
9:55 - 10:10 Discussion
10:10 -10:30 EMEP information: presentation of infrastructure of EMEP potentially useful for EIONET community (EMEP- representative)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25 Host country presentation: Contribution of the Thermal Power Plants to Improvement of Air Quality in Slovenia
11:25 - 11:40 Presentation of DEMv4 development: a tool for streamlining data flow to EMEP and EIONET (Wim Mol)
11:40 - 12:30 Discussion on data reporting and information needs in Europe
12.30 Closure of EIONET workshop
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

Joint session TFMM and EIONET

2nd TFMM Meeting

Wednesday 30 May 2001

2nd TFMM Meeting

Wednesday 30 May 2001

Agenda of the second meeting of the TFMM
14:00 - 14:10 Opening and introduction
14:10 - 14:15 Adoption of the agenda
14:15 - 14:20 Report from the last meeting
Monitoring and Modelling of heavy metals
14:20 - 14:25 Introduction (MSC-E)
14:25 - 14:35 The EMEP Manual on Measurement of HM: Introduction (CCC); Adoption
14:35 - 15:00 Trends in concentrations and deposition (J. Pacyna)
15:00 - 15:25 HM model output: fields of pollution, transboundary matrices, trends (MCS-E)
15:25 - 15:50 Hg modelling problems and progress (G. Petersen, GKSS Germany)
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:35 Realiability of modelling results: comparison with measurements, model intercomparison, sensitivity study (Oleg Travnikov, EMEP/MSC-E)
16:35 - 16:50 Regional Level of Heavy Metals in Ambient Air over the Territory of Slovakia (Marta M)
16:50 - 17:15 Cooperation with national experts and international organizations. Future activity in the field of HM.
17:15 - 17:30 Conclusions
17:30 End of Session

 

Thursday, 31. May 2001

Thursday, 31. May 2001

Assessment Report
General  
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction (Sonja Vidic)
9:10 - 9:30 Progress since 1. TFMM (CCC)
9:30 - 9:45 Progress since 1. TFMM (MSC-W)
9:45 - 10:00 Experience with assessment reporting in Canada (A. Sirois)
10:00 - 10:20 Preparation of the assessment report (G. Lovebland)
Presentations of national experts (Emphasis not only on results, but also on methods, tools, difficulties,...)
10:20 - 10:35 Trends and Transport of air pollutants in Denmark over 20 years (N. Heidam)
10:35 - 10:50 Assessment of sulphur in FR Yugoslavia (T. Vukovic)
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:25 Assessment of long-range transport of air pollutants to Slovenia using back-trajectories (M. Lešnjak / A. Sirois)
11:25 - 11:40 Temporal changes of sulphur and nitrogen components concentrations in air and precipitation in Lithuania (D. Sopauskiene)
11:40 - 11: 55 Reevaluation of German EMEP measurements (M. Wallash)
11:55 - 12:10 Deposition fluxes of acidifying compounds on the territory of Belarus (S. Kakareka)
12:10 - 12:30 Optional: Country presentation/start of discussion and conclusions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:30 Discussion and Conclusions; Future Activities
Particulate matter
14:30 - 14:45 Presentation of the new EMEP monitoring strategy for PM10 (CCC)
14:45 - 15:00 Discussion on the PM10 strategy (situation in countries)
Transposition from Lagrangian to Eulerian modelling
15:00 - 15:30 Transposition from Lagrangian to Eulerian model (MSC-W)
15:45 - 16:00 Data-assimilation and experience with the 3-D Eulerain grid model LOTOS (P. Builtjes)
  End of Session

Friday, 1. June 2001


Friday, 1. June 2001

Ammonia  
9:00 - 9:25 Findings of the ad hoc working group on ammonia
9:25 - 9:40 Discussion of possible links to TFMM
Ozone  
9:40 - 9:50 Report from a workshop on ozone trends (JS)
9:50 - 10:10 Ozone trends in the British isles (D. Derwent)
10:10 - 10:25 Ozone levels over Western Europe: a first comparison between EMEP and the French model CHIMIERE Continental results (L. Rouil / R. Vautard)
Other issues  
10:25 - 10:45 Presentation of EMEP's flag - validation of data (CCC)
10:45 - 11:00 MedNet - An initiative for a Mediterranean Monitoring network (JRC)
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:35 - 11:50 POPs in the environment (CCC)
11:50 - 12:05 Future Priorities
12:05 - 12:20 Work plan for 2002- 2004
12:20 - 12:30 Any other business
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Report to the EMEP Steering Body
15:00 End of Meeting