Project description
Better emissions estimates by integrating bottom-up and top-down approaches
Regional and national authorities and scientists are attempting to characterise greenhouse gas (GHG) and aerosol emissions that contribute to global climate change, using both bottom-up and top-down techniques, often with differing results. Bottom-up methods, for example, focus on measurements of a representative sample of equipment; this produces statistical estimates of atmospheric emissions. Top-down methods can be performed at a regional scale, based on measured concentrations in the air at specific sites or via satellite, for instance. The EU-funded AVENGERS project will advance the top-down approach for quantifying GHG and aerosol emissions, and will reconcile and integrate approaches into a joint bottom-up and top-down framework. The enhanced estimations will support policymaking by local/regional authorities, countries and international organisations.
Objective
The Attributing and Verifying European and National Greenhouse gas and aerosol Emissions and Reconciliation with Statistical bottom-up estimates – AVENGERS consortium unites a diverse group of experts “to establish how top-down techniques can support the verification of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and other regulated estimates of emissions and removals, in order to improve or supplement the methods/approaches currently used”. In recognition of the need for a truly multi-actor approach the team represents experts in atmospheric inverse modelling and data assimilation, remote sensing, environmental monitoring and observation, terrestrial ecosystem modelling, policy and stakeholder interaction together with national inventory compilers. AVENGERS builds upon the heritage of previous EU projects, in particular CHE, CoCO2 and VERIFY and will advance the top-down approach for quantifying GHG and aerosol emissions, as well as reconcile and integrate approaches into a joint bottom-up and top-down framework. Based on the reconciliation AVENGERS will prepare good-practice guidelines for use of atmospheric inverse models as well as develop a Flexible Inversion Tool for Inventory Compilers (FIT-IC). Knowledge and outcomes are provided of use for policy and societal stakeholders and replicable outside of our chosen target area (Europe with a focus on Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, and The Netherlands). The uniqueness of the consortium lies in the combination of the required scientific expertise with full partner presence of official reporting agencies from exemplary EU countries (Germany, Italy, Sweden, and The Netherlands) facilitating the transfer of knowledge to key international organizations (such as UNFCCC, WMO) in the field.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geochemistry biogeochemistry
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON.2.5.1 - Climate Science and Solutions
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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22100 Lund
Sweden
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