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Project

INGOS

Title Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observation System
Grant Agreement Number 284274
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 01/10/2011 - 30/09/2015
Project URL http://www.ingos-infrastructure.eu
Scientific Domain Environmental Sciences
Action Line Combination of CP & CSA
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA
Abstract InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases are an attractive target for climate change mitigation policies. InGOS aims to improve the existing European observation system so that this will provide us insight into the concentration levels and European and extra-European emissions of the NCGHGs. The data from the network will enable to better constrain the emissions of NCGHGs within the EU and show whether emission reduction policies are effective. The data from the network is designed to allow to detect the spatial and temporal distribution (hotspots) of the sources and to detect changes in emissions due to mitigation and feedbacks with climate change. To strengthen the European observation system, the project has several objectives: - Harmonize and standardize the measurements. - Provide capacity building in new member states and countries with inadequate existing infrastructure. - Support existing observation sites and transfer of selected sites into supersites. - Integrate and further integrate marine observations of the NCGHGs with land-based observations - Improve measurement methods by testing new innovative techniques and strategies. - Test advanced isotope techniques for application in the network to enable attribution of the atmospheric fractions to source categories - Integrate data for network evaluation by using inverse modeling and data-assimilation methods and developments in bottom up inventories - Link the network to remote sensing data of column abundances from in-situ and satellite observations - Prepare for the integration of the NCGHG network with the Integrated Carbon Observation System
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country)
STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND, Netherlands
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE, Germany
ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE, United Kingdom
LUNDS UNIVERSITET, Sweden
RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG, Germany
MET OFFICE, United Kingdom
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, United Kingdom
NORSK INSTITUTT FOR LUFTFORSKNING, Norway
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN, Netherlands
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany
UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN, Norway
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK, Netherlands
UNIVERSITAET BREMEN, Germany
UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HEIDELBERG, Germany
ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH LIMITED, United Kingdom
Norwegian Centre for Research Data, Norway
EIDGENOESSISCHE MATERIALPRUEFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT, Switzerland
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, United Kingdom
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET, Sweden
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, United Kingdom
VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG, Netherlands
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM FUR OZEANFORSCHUNG KIEL, Germany
UNIWERSYTET PRZYRODNICZY W POZNANIU, Poland
ORSZAGOS METEOROLOGIAI SZOLGALAT, Hungary
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, United Kingdom
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA, Italy
FUNDACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRANEO, Spain
JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION, European Union
ILMATIETEEN LAITOS, Finland
AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE, Poland
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, United Kingdom
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, Netherlands