Objective
The overall goal of the proposed project is to develop a coordinated global observation system for mercury able to provide temporal and spatial distributions of mercury concentrations in ambient air and precipitation over land and over surface waters at different altitudes and latitudes around the world. This will then provide high quality data for the validation and application of regional and global scale atmospheric models, to give to governments, national and international organisations and stakeholders a firm basis for future policy development and implementation. Specific objectives of the proposed project are (a) to establish a Global Observation System for Mercury (GMOS) able to provide ambient concentrations and deposition fluxes of mercury species around the world, by combining observations from permanent ground-based stations, and from oceanographic and tropospheric measurement campaigns; (b) to validate regional and global scale atmospheric mercury modelling systems able to predict temporal variations and spatial distributions of atmospheric mercury entering to and re-emitted from terrestrial and aquatic receptors; (c) to evaluate and identify source-receptor relationships at country scale and their temporal trends for current and projected scenarios of mercury emissions from anthropogenic and natural sources; (d) to develop interoperable tools to allow the sharing of observational and models output data produced by GMOS. The overarching goal of GMOS is to support the achievement of goals set by the GEO / GEOSS, and specifically of the GEO Task HE-09-02d and contribute to the advancement of our scientific understanding in the nine Societal Benefit Areas (SBA) established in GEOSS. The proposed project will rely on the results and knowledge acquired in the framework of past EU projects (i.e. MAMCS, MOE, MERCYMS) and international programs (i.e. UNECE TF HTAP; UNEP F&T partnership area).
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Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2010
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Coordinator
00185 Roma
Italy
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Participants (23)
2027 Kjeller
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100 31 Stockholm
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1000 Ljubljana
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C1425FQB Buenos Aires
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29280 Plouzane
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Paramaribo
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405 30 Goeteborg
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30123 Venezia
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8000 Aarhus C
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21502 Geesthacht
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38041 GRENOBLE
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YO10 5DD York North Yorkshire
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550002 Guiyang
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12530-000 Cachoeira Paulista
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123056 MOSKVA
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80539 Munchen
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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600025 CHENNAI
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0001 Pretoria
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ESPARGOS
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1586 RIGA
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199034 SAINT PETERSBURG
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412 96 GOTEBORG
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