Air Quality and Climate Change: Interactions and Feedbacks
ACCENT-Plus Symposium
Urbino 13 -16 September 2011
ORAL PROGRAMME
DAY 1 TUE SEP 13
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8.30 – 12.00 |
ACCENT-Plus Steering Group Meeting |
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9.00 – 13.00 |
Registration |
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Opening Session – Chair Michela Maione |
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14.00 – 15.00 |
Welcome addresses |
Stefano Pivato, Rector of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” |
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Cristina Sabbioni, Acting Director, ISAC-CNR |
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Flavio Vetrano, Director DiSBeF, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” Liisa Jalkanen, Chief AER RES, WMO |
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Sandro Fuzzi, ACCENT-Plus Coordinator |
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Session 1: How can science best support policy? – Chair Sandro Fuzzi |
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15.00 – 15.10 |
ACCENT-Plus: coordinating scientific activities in support of policy. Perspectives from DG RTD |
Jose M. Jimenez Mingo, EC - DG RTD - Research and Innovation Environment Directorate |
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15.10 – 15.30 |
Supporting integration of air pollution and climate change in European policy making |
John van Aardenne , European Environment Agency, Denmark |
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15.30 – 15.50 |
Coffee break |
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15.50 – 16.10 |
Frank Dentener, EC-JRC, Ispra, Italy |
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16.10 – 16.30 |
Michael Schulz, Meteorologisk Institutt, Norway |
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16.30 – 16.50 |
The Pan-European Gas-Aerosols-Climate Interaction Study (PEGASOS) |
Maria Kanakidou, FORTH-ICEHT Partas and University of Crete, Greece |
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16.50 – 17.10 |
The UNEP/WMO Assessment of SLCFs – Black carbon and tropospheric ozone |
Martin Williams, King’s College London, United Kingdom |
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17.10 – 17.30 |
Advanced atmospheric observations for climate and environmental studies |
Paolo Laj, LGGE Grenoble, France |
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17.30 – 18.10 |
ACCENT-Plus Associates assembly |
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18.30 |
Ice breaker |
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DAY 2 WED SEP 14
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Session 2: Methane, air quality and climate – Chair Guy Brasseur |
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9.00 – 9.30 |
Cornelis Cuvelier, EC, DG-ENTR GMES Bureau, Belgium |
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9.30 – 9.50 |
Air quality and climate change: integrated decision support for policy makers |
Daniel Steiner, Joanneum Research Graz, Austria |
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9.50 – 10.10 |
Variability and long-term trends of methane and carbon column-averaged mole fractions retrieved from SCIAMACHY |
Oliver Schneising, University of Bremen, Germany |
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10.10 – 10.30 |
Alistair Manning, UK Met Office, United Kingdom |
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10.30 – 11.30 |
Coffee & Poster session |
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11.30 – 11.50 |
Andreas Richter, University of Bremen, Germany |
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11.50– 12.10 |
Guillaume Monteil, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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Session 3: Ozone, air quality and climate – Chair Guy Brasseur |
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12.10 – 12.40 |
Michael Gauss, Meteorologisk Institutt, Norway |
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12.40 – 13.00 |
Analysis of the total peroxy nitrates and total alkyl nitrates |
Fabio Biancofiore, University of L’Aquila, Italy |
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13.00 -14.30 |
Lunch break |
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Session 3, continues – Chair Claire Granier |
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14.30 – 15.00 |
Leonor Tarrason, NILU, Norway |
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15.00 – 15.20 |
Air quality trends in Europe over the past decade: a first multi-model assessment |
Augustin Colette, INERIS, France |
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15.20 – 15.40 |
Henk Eskes, KNMI, the Netherlands |
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15.40 – 16.00 |
NO2 pollution trends 1996-2010: a multi-satellite approach |
Andreas Hilboll, University of Bremen, Germany |
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16.00 – 16.20 |
Astrid Manders, TNO, the Netherlands |
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16.20 – 16.40 |
Impact of the emissions from the Eastern Mediterranean megacities on air quality |
Ulas Im, University of Crete, Greece |
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16.40 – 17.00 |
Coffee break |
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17.00 – 17.20 |
The relative importance of impacts from climate change vs. emission change on air pollution levels |
Camilla Geels, NERI, Denmark |
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17.20 – 17.40 |
Observed and simulated ozone and organic aerosol changes in the global troposphere the last decade |
Nikos Daskalakis, University of Crete, Greece |
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17.40 – 18.00 |
Emission changes are more important for future surface ozone than climate change over Europe |
Camilla Andersson, Stockholm University, Sweden |
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18.00 – 18.20 |
The impact of anthropogenic VOC speciation on the composition of the troposphere |
Ariela D’Angiola, LATMOS IPSL, France |
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18.20 – 18.40 |
How important are isoprene (biogenic) emissions in a megacity environment? |
Paul Monks, University of Leicester, United Kingdom |
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18.40 – 20.00 |
Poster pub |
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DAY 3, THU SEP 15
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Session 4: Nitrogen cycle, benefits and threats – Chair David Fowler |
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9.00 – 9.30 |
Jan Willem Erisman, ECN, The Netherlands |
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9.30 – 9.50 |
Maria Kanakidou, University of Crete, Greece |
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9.50 – 10.10 |
Ute Skiba, CEH, United Kingdom |
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10.10 – 10.30 |
Atmospheric transport and deposition of NH3 in Europe: effects of including bi-directional surface atmosphere exchange |
Roy Wichink Kruit, TNO, The Netherlands |
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10.30 –11.30 |
Coffee & Poster session |
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Session 5: Particulate matter, climate and water cycle – Chair Yinon Rudich |
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11.30 – 12.00 |
Does atmospheric chemistry constitutes a significant feedback in the climate system? |
Frank Raes, EC-JRC, Ispra, Italy |
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12.00 – 12.20 |
Estimating the lifetime of black carbon in rural air |
Neil Cape, CEH, United Kingdom |
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12.20 – 12.40 |
Sapuss: solving aerosol problems by using synergistic strategies in Barcelona |
Manuel Dall'Osto, IDAEA-CSIC, Spain |
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12.40 – 13.00 |
Particulate Emissions from Residential Wood Combustion in Europe |
Hugo Denier van der Gon, TNO, The Netherlands |
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13.00 – 14.30 |
Lunch break |
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Session 5: Particulate matter, climate and water cycle – Chair Yinon Rudich |
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14.30 – 15.00 |
Spyros Pandis, University of Patras, Greece |
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15.00 – 15.20 |
Matteo Rinaldi, ISAC-CNR, Italy |
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15.20 – 15.40 |
Combined SAGE II and CALIPSO observations of aerosol in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere |
Larry Thomason, Langley Research Center, NASA, USA |
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15.40 – 16.00 |
Miri Trainic, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
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16.00 – 16.20 |
Coffee break |
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16.20 – 16.40 |
Integrating air quality and climate interactions research with policy Activities of the PEGASOS project |
Bjoern Weber, Climate Service Centre, Germany |
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16.40 – 17.00 |
Elisabetta Vignati, EC-JRC, Ispra, Italy |
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17.00 – 17.20 |
Atmospheric circulation patterns associated with intense dustoutbreaks over the Mediterranean basin |
Nikos Mihalopoulos, University of Crete, Greece |
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17.20 – 17.40 |
EARLINET-ASOS, an European research infrastructure for the aerosol study at continental scale |
Lucia Mona, CNR-IMAA, Italy |
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20.00 |
Gala dinner |
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DAY 4 FRI SEP 16
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Session 6: Air quality & health (human and ecosystems) – Chair Spyros Pandis |
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9.00 – 9.30 |
Oxidative potential of particulate matter: a promising new marker of PM toxicity |
Frank Kelly, King’s College London, United Kingdom |
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9.30 – 9.50 |
Global health and climate benefits since the implementation of emission controls in the transport sector beyond EURO1 and EURO3 |
Rita Van Dingenen, EC-JRC, Ispra, Italy |
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9.50 – 10.10 |
Yinon Rudich, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
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10.10 – 10.30 |
Climate change, air-quality, and human and ecosystem health impacts in North America |
Paul Makar, Environment Canada |
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10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee break |
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11.00 – 11.30 |
Lisa Emberson, Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York, United Kingdom |
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11.30 – 11.50 |
Ozone risk for vegetation in the future climate of Europe based on stomatal ozone uptake calculations |
Hakan Pleijel, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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11.50 – 12.10 |
MOSESS: A new emission model for the compilation of model-ready emission inventories |
Kostantinos Markakis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
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12.10 – 12.30 |
Concluding remarks |
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