Objective
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
Field of science
- /natural sciences/chemical sciences/organic chemistry/organohalogen compounds
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/remote sensing
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/atmospheric sciences/climatology/climatic changes
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
1755 LE Petten
Netherlands
Participants (37)
80539 Muenchen
8600 Dubendorf
75015 Paris 15
BS8 1QU Bristol
NR4 7TJ Norwich
69117 Heidelberg
3584 CS Utrecht
TW20 0EX Egham
28359 Bremen
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
2800 Kgs Lyngby
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
1049 Brussels
SN2 1EU Swindon Wiltshire
00560 Helsinki
01100 Viterbo
60323 Frankfurt Am Main
2027 Kjeller
76131 Karlsruhe
22100 Lund
75007 Paris Cedex 07
EX1 3PB Exeter
30-059 Krakow
LE1 7RH Leicester
Participation ended
1081 HV Amsterdam
1024 Budapest
9712CP Groningen
60 637 Poznan
24148 Kiel
28006 Madrid
5020 Bergen
6708 PB Wageningen
46980 Paterna, Valencia
EX4 4QJ Exeter
18071 Granada
08005 Barcelona
1081 HV Amsterdam