1. Air quality Monitoring and Forecasting In China Annual meeting 16-17 October 2008 Beijing

2. Contents Time line Web-site Annual report Deliverables Publication rules Other projects/activities New partners

3. Status Highlights: DRAGON 2 proposal approved Operational forecast services during Olympic Games –New official user: dutch olympic committee NOC-NSF Lot of media attention (tv, radio, newspapers, internet) Co-operation of different groups for nested modelling, validation etc. Points of concerns: Delay of aerosol and tropospheric ozone products More communication seems possible and potential fruitful: use the web-site for your results !

4.  1 Sep. 2007Start AMFIC  26 Oct. 2007Kick-off meeting  1 March 2008Start validation activities  21-25 Apr 2008Dragon symposium, Progress meeting Beijing start of DRAGON II  13-14 May 2008Progress meeting Thessaloniki  June 2008Launch FY-3  8-25 Aug 2008Olympic Games and forecast services  16-17 Oct. 2008Mid-term meeting in China  March 2009Progress meeting  May ?? 2009DRAGON symposium in Europe  31 August 2009User workshop & final meeting in China  April 2012End DRAGON II Timeline / milestones

5. Web-site Probably 1000 visitors per month Validation web page is useful ? New: internal web-site –Name: amfic Password: amf!c2008 –Reports, minutes, presentations, non-public datasets

6. Annual report Report has been finished, see http://www.amfic.eu/internal/annual_report_2008.php Lesson learned: –Stamps and rounding errors –Dissemination results are important –Difficulties with Form C –Lot of work Next year: audits ! Deliverable reports

7. Deliverables (I) D2.10 Optimised AATSR aerosol retrieval algorithm month 12 D2.9 Final report describing the data setsmonth 13 D2.11 Validated fields of aerosol propertiesmonth 15 D3.1 Validation results for aerosolsmonth 15 D2.5 Evaluation of the validationmonth 18 D3.2 Validation results for SO2month 18 D3.3 Validation results for NO2month 18 D3.4 Validation results for COmonth 18 D4.3 Final report for task 2,3,4month 18 D2.12 Updated aerosol properties over China month 20 D2.6 Documentation describing the data productsmonth 24 D2.13 Operational aerosol retrieval algorithmmonth 24

8. Deliverables (II) D3.5 Model intercomparison resultsmonth 24 D3.6 Validation reportmonth 24 D4.4 High-resolution air quality maps for Shenyang month 24 D5.3 A forecast service for 2 days ahead month 24 D6.1 Web database for …month 24 D6.2 Assessment reportmonth 24 D6.4 User Workshopmonth 24 D1.3 Report on actions taken to raise public participation and awarenessmonth 24 D1.4 End reportmonth 24

9. Publication rules Page 17 of the DOW: Before submitting paper: make manuscript available to AMFIC team on password-protected web-site. Acknowledgement of EC support

10. Related activities DRAGON 2: –extended AMFIC proposal approved –means to get satellite data –Continues till 2012 Bilateral activities : Switzerland (EMPA), Belgium (VITO, BIRA) Validation campaigns ?? Co-operation with CERC: street-level model ….

11. New partners In DRAGON 2 - AMFIC: AIOFM/CAS FUDAN University CAMS/CMA In EU - AMFIC: University of Eindhoven (Hennie Kelder) Wisewatch Shenyang (subcontractor)