Objective Due to the strong economic growth in the China in the past decade, air pollution has become a serious issue in many parts of the country. Therefore, up-to-date regional air pollution information and means of emission control for the main pollutants are important for China. Especially, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River deltas are known as three focal regions with serious air pollution where air quality policies are very important.Within the FP6 project AMFIC atmospheric environmental monitoring over China was addressed by a team of both Chinese and European scientists. Within AMFIC it was concluded that modelling of air quality and therefore the forecast capabilities are hampered by the rapidly changing emissions due to economic growth. In addition, air quality measures could not directly be related to changes in emissions.Therefore, within the follow-up proposal - MarcoPolo - the focus will be on emission estimates from space and the refinement of these emission estimates by spatial downscaling and by source sector apportionment. Air pollutants cover both anthropogenic and biogenic sources. A wide range of satellite data will be used from various instruments. From these satellite data, emission estimates will be made for NOx, SO2, PM and biogenic sources. With various state-of-the-art techniques emission inventories will be created and intercompared. By combining these emission data with known information from the ground a new emission database for MarcoPolo will be constructed. Due to the strongly growing economy in China regular emission inventories are quickly outdated. Within MarcoPolo we will have a monthly update of the emissions based on the latest satellite observations. The improved emission inventory is input to regional air quality models on meso-scale and urban-scale. End-users and decision makers will be informed about air quality via visualized model results and forecasts. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologyengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineeringnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution Programme(s) FP7-SPACE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space Topic(s) SPA.2013.3.2-01 - Cooperation with third countries Call for proposal FP7-SPACE-2013-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator KONINKLIJK NEDERLANDS METEOROLOGISCH INSTITUUT-KNMI EU contribution € 339 775,00 Address UTRECHTSEWEG 297 3731 GA De Bilt Netherlands See on map Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ronald Van Der A (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (14) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS Greece EU contribution € 120 000,00 Address KEDEA BUILDING, TRITIS SEPTEMVRIOU, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 546 36 THESSALONIKI See on map Region Βόρεια Ελλάδα Κεντρική Μακεδονία Θεσσαλονίκη Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Georgia Petridou (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT ROYAL D'AERONOMIE SPATIALEDE BELGIQUE Belgium EU contribution € 159 935,00 Address AVENUE CIRCULAIRE 3 1180 Bruxelles / Brussel See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Trissevgeni Stavrakou (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DANMARKS METEOROLOGISKE INSTITUT Denmark EU contribution € 159 969,00 Address SANKT KJELDS PLADS 11 2100 KOBENHAVN See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Alexander Baklanov (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DIMOKRITIO PANEPISTIMIO THRAKIS Greece EU contribution € 129 600,00 Address PANEPISTIMIOUPOLI RECTORATE BUILDING 691 00 KOMOTINI See on map Region Βόρεια Ελλάδα Aνατολική Μακεδονία Ροδόπη Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Konstantinos Kourtidis (Prof) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ILMATIETEEN LAITOS Finland EU contribution € 189 648,00 Address Erik Palmenin aukio 1 00560 Helsinki See on map Region Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Gerrit De Leeuw (Prof) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS OFCHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES China EU contribution € 109 350,00 Address BUILDING 7 HUAYANLI QIJIAHUOZI DESHENGMENWAI 100029 BEIJING See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Jianhui Bai (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ISARDSAT SL Spain EU contribution € 80 000,00 Address CONGRES 49 51 08031 Barcelona See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Vinyals Lluís (Mr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ETHNIKO ASTEROSKOPEIO ATHINON Greece EU contribution € 100 000,00 Address LOFOS NYMFON 11810 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Vassilis Amiridis (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHISICAL SCIENCES CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES China EU contribution € 49 680,00 Address DONGPUDAO 350 230031 HEFEI See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Pinhua Xie (Prof) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO Netherlands EU contribution € 159 621,00 Address ANNA VAN BUERENPLEIN 1 2595 DA Den Haag See on map Region West-Nederland Zuid-Holland Agglomeratie ’s-Gravenhage Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Elly Van Den Akker-Blaazer (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PEKING UNIVERSITY China EU contribution € 99 720,00 Address The Summer Palace Road 5 100871 BEIJING See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Limin Zeng (Prof) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY China EU contribution € 99 720,00 Address QING HUA YUAN 100084 BEIJING See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Qiang Zhang (Prof) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V. Belgium EU contribution € 190 362,00 Address BOERETANG 200 2400 Mol See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Turnhout Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Nele Veldeman (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY United Kingdom EU contribution € 10 000,00 Address HOLLOWAY ROAD 166 220 N7 8DB London See on map Region London Inner London — East Haringey and Islington Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Yong Xue (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
