12th annual TFMM meeting
Zurich, Switzerland 11-13 May 2011

Hosted by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment

Presentations

Wednesday, 11 May 2011 (8:30- 17:00)

8:30 Registration
  Welcome Richard Ballaman
Robert Gehrig
9:00-9:15 Synthesis on the progress of work related to the Gothenburg protocol and the Aarhus protocole Richard Ballaman
Chair of the WGSR
9:15 - 9:30 Synthesis of the EMEP activity and strategic issues (revision of the Gothenburg Protocol, long term strategy...) Sonja Vidic
Chair of the EMEP program
9:30-9:40 Links with the TFMM work plan Laurence Rouïl
 
Session 1A. Strategic issues for the EMEP monitoring strategy: implementation
9:45-10:15 Implementation of the EMEP monitoring strategy – report from CCC Wenche Aas
(CCC)
10:15–10:35 Progress in the OC/EC measurements within EMEP Fabrizia Cavalli
(EC-JRC)
10:35 -10:55 Evaluation of long-time measurements of PM10and trace gases with the online-system MARGA at the EMEP-level-3-site Melpitz in Germany Benjamin Fahlbusch
(Germany)
 
10:55-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
 
11:15-11:35 Implementation of the revised EMEP measurement strategy for the Netherlands Addo Van Pul
(Netherlands)
11:35-11:55 Implementation of the new EMEP monitoring strategy in the Czech Republic Milan Vana
(Czech republic)
11:55-12:15 Trends in atmospheric concentrations of reduced nitrogen in Sweden and interactions with other pollutants. Martin Ferm
(Sweden)
12:15-12:45 DISCUSSION: Countries responses Countries representatives
 
13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
 
Session 1B Strategic issues for the EMEP monitoring strategy: link with the EU directives framework and future priorities
14:00-14:20 The JRC and AQUILA Network air quality measurement harmonisation programme Annette Borowiak
(EC-JRC)
14:20-14-40 A 12 years study of atmospheric pollution in the Central Mediterranean : latest results and future research prospects Francelle Farrugia and Raymond Ellul
(Malta)
14:40-15:00 Monitoring of climate forcers in EMEP Kjetil Torseth
(Norway)
15:00-15:30 DISCUSSION: difficulties and limitation connected with simultaneous implementation of monitoring according to different protocols and Directives – experience in countries
 
15:30-15:50 COFFEE BREAK
 
15:50-16:10 Air Quality Monitoring Technologies for Urban Areas: The AirMonTech Project Christoph Hueglin
(Switzerland)
 
Session 2 Issues related to ozone, PM and precursors monitoring
16:10-16:30 From EUSAAR to ACTRIS: recommandation for the monitoring strategy of short-lived species in Europe Paolo Laj
(France)
16:30-16:50 Implementing the monitoring requirements of VOCs - best practice in choice of methodology Stefan Reimann
(Switzerland)
16:50-17:10 NO2 Measurements with Different Converters; Molybdenum Converters vs. Specific NO2 Converters Robert Gehrig
(Switzerland)
17:10-17:30 Ozone trends: report from Tropospheric Ozone workshop in Toulouse Oksana Tarasova
(WMO)
 
17:30 End of the day

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Session 3 EMEP intensive observation periods
9:00-9:30 Results from the 2008-2009 EMEP intensive observation periods Wenche Aas
(CCC)
9:30-9:50 Aerosol mass spectrometer measurements and source apportionment during the last EMEP campaigns André Prevot (Switerzerland)
9:50-10:10 PM1 composition measurements with the aerodyne Aerosol chemical speciation monitor Risto Hillamo
(Finland)
10:10-10:20 Suggestions for future intensive observation periods André Prévot (Switzerland)
 
10:20-10:40 COFFEE BREAK
 
10:40-11:10 Discussion : Preparation of the next EMEP intensive observation periods (2012-2013) all
 
Session4 EMEP case study on heavy metals
11:10-11:30 MSC-East report on the heavy metals cases studies MSC-East (Ilia Ilyin)
  National reports on the heavy metals casestudies:
11:30-11:45 Czech Republic Milan Vana
11:45-12:00 Progress on heavy metal modeling in Croatia – a case study Amela Jericevic
12:00-12:15 The Netherlands Eric van der Swaluw
12:15-12:30 Modeling HMs and POPs in Italy with national modeling system MINNI: preliminary results for the year 2005 Mihaela Mircea
12:30-12:45 Spain Andrés Alastuey
12:45-13:00 Work on modelling of gaseous mercury from natural sources in Portugal Oxana Tchepel
 
13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
 
14:00-14:30 Discussion on possibility of inverse modeling application for independent assessment of heavy metals emissions MSC-East
 
Session 5 Progress in the development and the evaluation of the EMEP model Part 1 : EMEP grid transformation
14:30-14:50 Considerations about changing the EMEP grid Michael Gauss (MSC-W)
14:50-15:10 Impact of the resolution and projection change on the input parameters and model performance (MSC-E)
15:10-15:30 DISCUSSION on the EMEP domain; Impact of the proposed grid change on monitoring strategy Countries
 
15:30-16:00 DISCUSSION (synthesis of the 2 first days): how to better use collaboration with research projects in implementation of EMEP monitoring strategy All
 
16:00 End of the day
Social event and dinner

Friday, 13 May 2011

Session 6. Progress in the development of the EMEP model and evaluation of the model performances: part 2
9:00-9:30 Testing EMEP model with AMS measurements from 2008-09 intensive periods Svetlana Tsyro (MSC-W)
9:30-9:50 PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 speciation and BC and N data available in Spain for model validation Andrés Alastuey (Spain)
9:50-10:10 Using EMEP data to evaluate the online-coupled chemistry-climate model COSMO-ART Christoph Knote (Switzerland)
10:10-10:30 Impact of chemical mechanism choice on air quality policy development Dick Derwent (United Kingdom)
10:30-10:50 Latest developments for modelling SIA in LOTOS-EUROS Martjin Schaap (Netherlands)
10:50-11:10 Improving regional air quality model results at the city scale : results from the EC4MACS project Bertrand Bessagnet (France)
 
11:10-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
 
11:30-11:50 A new high resolution European emission inventory for 1999 in support of the EURODELTA 3 trend initiative Jeroen Kuenen (Netherlands)
11:50-12:30 Update on the Euroldeta 3 project and discussion Laurence Rouïl
 
Session 7. EMEP Outreach
12:30-13:00
  • Cooperation with the WGE
  • Preparation of the report on achievements within 10 years of Convention: Questionnaire (what is the results of Gothenburg Protocol implementation)
  • Regular TFMM Newsletter – call for ideas and support
all
 
13:00 END of the MEETING