Periodic Reporting for period 3 - VERIFY (Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2021-02-01 do 2022-07-31
• Networking meetings between the research community and the national inventory compilers and active collaboration with international programs (contribution to the GHG synthesis of the Global Carbon Project, to WMO-IGIS initiatives, to COP related events, …).
• Process-based and statistical model simulations of terrestrial ecosystem CO2/CH4/N2O fluxes over Europe, at high spatial resolution for CO2 (~10 km over the last century).
• New atmospheric regional inversions for natural CO2/CH4/N2O fluxes (up to 2021 for CO2) and construction of a community inversion framework as the backbone of a transparent, internationally-shared future GHG monitoring system.
• New continental high-resolution maps (~6 km resolution) of anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and co-emitted species for Europe (up to 2019).
• Two inversion estimates of the annual CO, NOx and CO2 anthropogenic emissions in Western Europe based on satellite CO and NO2 data.
• Deployment of instruments and acquisition of new data, through both campaigns in the Rhine Valley and St Petersburg area, to study the correlation between anthropogenic CO2 and co-emitted species.
• First GHG flux synthesis over Europe for CO2, CH4 and N2O comparing the observation based estimates with the national inventories (including the creation of Factsheets synthesizing emissions).
• Construction of a framework (i.e. pre-operational system) to provide a yearly update of the GHG flux synthesis for all EU countries (covering the past two decades up to the previous year).
• Construction of a database to host VERIFY datasets and of user-friendly visualization tools (time series and mapping facilities) to explore recent trends in GHG fluxes.
• Analysis of the drivers of the EU GHG trends and contribution to the analysis of the COVID-19 related changes in anthropogenic GHG emissions.
• A report on the research needs to further improve observation-based GHG flux estimates (bottom up and top down approaches).
• Improved spatial & temporal resolution for the mapping of anthropogenic GHG emissions
• Potential of co-emitted tracers for GHG emission estimates
• Advances in Data Assimilation System (DAS) including a Community Inversion Framework (CIF); combined Fossil Fuel – Land Biosphere DAS
• New assessment of the potential of recent or planned GHG satellite missions
• High-resolution (< 10 km) flux estimates for land ecosystem over Europe with comprehensive attribution of GHG budgets to the main drivers
• Comprehensive GHG budget for Europe (individual countries and groups of countries) including updated lateral fluxes and coastal fluxes
• New comprehensive assessment of all uncertainties associated to anthropogenic emission and biogenic fluxes at national level