National Institute for Public Health and the Environment GMES towards integrated environmental monitoring of the atmosphere Daan Swart RIVM Laboratory for Environmental Monitoring

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Joint program of EU and ESA Other players: EEA, ECMWF, EUMETSAT, WMO, …. Purpose: Set up/integrate monitoring and information infrastructure for environment and security In situ and space components Existing infrastructure is integrated, not duplicated

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Program runs for several years already Financed by: -EU: 6 th and 7 th framework program -ESA: GMES Service Element -No structural funding (yet) Guidance: -GMES Advisory Council -GMES Bureau at EU -ESA program board -EU Ministers

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment GMES related international initiatives GEO -Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations -Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) → GMES is the European contribution to GEOSS INSPIRE -Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe -Directive 2007/2/EC (15th May 2007). -GMES data will become part of INSPIRE in the future SEIS -Shared Environment Information System -EC, late 2007 → Overall framework for a.o. INSPIRE, GMES, …

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Current GMES “Services” Fast track services: -Land -Water -Security -Operational in 2008 (?) Pilot service: -Atmosphere Started in 2007 Implementation group to report this summer

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment GMES Atmosphere Pilot Ground based: -Integration AQ monitoring networks -other in situ networks -Balloons, ground based RS -Central role for EEA From Space: -Envisat (Gomos, Mipas, Sciamachy) -Aura with OMI -GOME2 series on Metop -Proposed: TROPOMI (starting 2014?) -Sentinel 4 and 5 (starting 2019 ?) -Central role for ESA Integration of information: -Models using data-assimilation -Integration with meteorological models -Central role for ECMWF Approach: -Like previously in meteorology -Organized internationally, with national foci on “regions” -Core services -Downstream services

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Current GMES-atmosphere projects GEMS -EU-financed GMES-project -Air Quality forecasts on European scale PROMOTE -ESA-financed GMES-project -Space part of GMES Service Element ‘Atmosphere’ GEOMON -EU-financed GMES project (6th framework program) -Collects and analyses European groundbased and satellite data of atmospheric composition, with a main focus on climate change MACC -Future EU-funded GMES project, successor of GEMS and PROMOTE -Aims to produce most of the Core Services for Atmosphere

National Institute for Public Health and the Environment GMES Atmosphere: bottom line Many activities and developments Connection with existing infrastructure needs to be improved, this is ongoing Distinct role for satellite observations Clear opportunity for (and need for) TROPOMI as -successor to Envisat and OMI (2014 max.) -precursor to Sentinel 5 (2019 ?) -afternoon orbit complementary to GOME-2