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European Environment Agency (EEA)

Air and Climate Change Programme

Anke Lükewille

Co-operation with EEA programmes

10th Task Force on Measurement and Modeling

Paris, 15-17 June 2008

http://www.eea.europa.eu Copenhagen, Denmark

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The European Environment Agency

• ... is the EU body dedicated to providing sound, independent information on the environment.

• ... is a main information source for those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, and also the general public.

http://www.eea.europa.eu Copenhagen, Denmark

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EEA’sEEA’s main tasks are: main tasks are:

• Networking - Development of a European Environmental Information and Observation Network (EIONET)

• Reporting on the state and trends of Europe’s environment

• Providing access to environmental information

32 Member Countries32 Member CountriesNFP (NRC)NFP (NRC)

5 EEA-ETCs5 EEA-ETCs

www.eionet.europa.eu www.eionet.europa.eu

http://dataservice.eea.europa.euhttp://dataservice.eea.europa.eu

www.eionet.europa.eu/reportnet.html www.eionet.europa.eu/reportnet.html

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EEA’s (new) organisation (2009)EEA’s (new) organisation (2009)

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ADSAdministrative

services

ADS0ADS Programme

office

ADS1Human resource

mangement

ADS2Budget, finance,

resources

ADS3Accounting

ACCAir and climate

change

ACC0ACC Programme

office

ACC1Mitigation

ACC2Air quality and

noise

COMCommunications

COM0COM Programme

office

COM1Web and

multimedia

COM2Media and public

relations

COM3Public outreach, internal comm.

COM4EU coord. and Brussels office

EDO1Executive

Director's office

GANGovernance and

networks

IEAIntegrated env. assessments

IEA0IEA Programme

office

IEA1Major integrated

assessments

IEA2Strategic futures

OSEOperational

services

OSE0OSE Programme

office

OSE1Production

OSE2IT and internal

systems

OSE3IT networking and

public systems

OSE4EMAS and facili- ties management

SESSEIS support

SES0SES Programme

office

SES1SEIS and GMES

SES2Data and indicators

SES3Information

services

ACC3Energy and

transport

IEA3Sustainable Cons.

and Production

NSVNatural systems and vulnerability

NSV0NSV Programme

office

NSV1Biodiversity

NSV2Water

NSV3Land

GAN1Governance and

Eionet coord.

EDO2Internationalcooperation

ADS4Legal matters

NSV4Vulnerability and

adaption

GAN0PGR office / wider Europ. networks

EEA organisational chart with parts contributing to GMES high-lighted.

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Co-operation

”State and trends in Europe’s environment”

Long-term air pollutant measurement time series

AirBase / EMEP-CCC

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Assessment of ground-level ozone within EEA Member Countries with focus

on long-term trends

EEA Technical Report prepared by ETC/ACC (2009):

Sverre Solberg, Jan Horalek, Jan Eilof Jonson, Steinar Larssen & Frank de Leeuw

In general, ambient air measurements in urban as well as in rural areas do not show any

downwards trends in ground-level ozone in Europe over the last decade, although

anthropogenic O3 precursor emissions in Europe have been reduced significantly.

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Number of AirBase stations with ozone measurements

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2008: 2049 stations

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Regional distribution of stations

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Number and quality of long-term time series in AirBase

Stations with

≥8 years of data => 729 stations

A minimum of 75% data capture per year=> 624 stations

Data of suspicious quality excluded => 586 stations

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Rural background

stations with ≥8 years of data

=> 219 stations

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Long term objective

Development of measured AOT40c levels

22 sites

6 sites

8 sites10 sites

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Source: Courtesy of DieZeit, October 19, 1984

Ozone has become a hemispheric air pollution and climate change problem.

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Co-operation

”State and trends in Europe’s environment”

Ecosystem effectsof air pollution

AQ CSI 005 / CCE (WG Effects) (WSC-W, CIAM)

State of the Environment 2010 Report

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Critical Loads (exceedances)

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Co-operation

“Providing access to environmental information”

Near Real Time (NRT) Initiatives

EEA’s ’ozone web’ / EMEP-CCC

Feasibility study (ETC/ACC) in 2009;Steering Board

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AQ Directive, protection of human health

Objective Level [µg/m3] Averaging time

Information threshold (IT) 180 one-hour

Alert threshold (AT) 240 one-hour

Long-term objective (LTO)

1208-hour average, daily maximum

Target value (TV)

120not to be

exceeded more than 25 days per calendar year *

8-hour average, daily maximum

*Averaged over three years and to be achieved where possible by 2010.

NRT !

3rd Daughter Directive (2002) & new AQ Directive of 2008

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logger

Sampler

Regionaldatabase

report

QA/AC

sources

HTTP Post HTTP Get

FTP PutFTP GetInternet

Data exchange

Public

EEA website

Nationaldatabase

Public

Internet

AirBase

Annual data

transfer

Compliance reporting

transfer

EEA NRTDatabase

EEA’s “Ozone Web”

since 2006

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EEA NRT air quality data – statusEEA NRT air quality data – status

Regionaldatabase

HTTP PostHTTP Get

FTP PutFTP Get

nationaldatabase

EEA NRTDatabase

Internet

O3 PM10 PM2.5 NO2 NOx SO2 CO

NRT data access module

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NRT AQ data providing added value NRT AQ data providing added value and facilitating re-useand facilitating re-use

Principles of NRT data exchange:

• Control: Data providers remain in control of data provision and use. (Not for compliance reporting.)

• Visibility: Visibility to data providers (branding and their services).

• Quality control: Data received in real-time by EEA will be filtered for data outside pre-set limits and null or error values.

• Added value services: EEA aims to provide added value services back to the data provider organisations and facilitate re-use (SEIS).

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Ozone data

Providing data

Sign-up underway

Not providing data

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Towards a Shared Environmental Information Towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)System (SEIS) – What is it? – What is it?

A collaborative initiative of the European Commission, EEA and Member Countries.

Aiming at a modern system for organising environmental information, based on INSPIRE/SEIS principles a.o.:

• “Data stored as close to source as possible”

• “Produce once, use many times”• “Easy accessible”

Overall objective: improve knowledge base for environmental policy; reduce administrative burden.

S. Dimas, Feb. 2008

“Better decisions from local to European level need better and more timely information, based on more efficient monitoring and reporting systems”

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EMEP and EEA NRT initiativesEMEP and EEA NRT initiatives The feasibility study aims to identify and suggest a strategy for

handling of NRT AQ data is to be implemented and operated in the future for EMEP and EEA needs taking into experience respective strategies and established capacities as well as SEIS principles.

Funding from EEA, project is progressing well, if somewhat delayed. Steering meeting on June 29 with countries and EMEP.

Aims – avoid duplication, burden on countries, add value, align with SEIS.

Need to improve link from outcome of feasibility work to EMEP monitoring strategy currently under development.

Need to improve collaboration between EMEP and EEA to ensure more continued follow-up and use of complementarities and make synergies in relation to monitoring. Need to work together to improve sustainability issues and address gaps.

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Co-operation

“Providing access to environmental information”

”State and trends in Europe’s environment”

GMES (in-situ)

EEA SE(I)S / EMEP ???

FP7 project (start 2010?)

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GMES - EEA coordination roleGMES - EEA coordination role

• The Commission Communication "GMES: we care for a safer planet" (COM(2008)748 of 12 November 2008);

• The Competitiveness Council conclusions on GMES: "Towards a GMES programme" (document 16722/08 of 2 December 2008).

Proposal for an EU earth observation programme named GMES,

Proposal for GMES initial operational funding 2011–2013,

Proposals formalising new coordinating roles for EEA / ESA.

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What is EEA doing in GMES?What is EEA doing in GMES?

1. Following and steer GMES implementation and governance processes;

2. Provide certain elements of GMES services;

3. Coordinate insitu data (NRT and validated);

4. Make use of services and federate user requirements.

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FP7 project - main objectivesFP7 project - main objectives

Exploring and determining methods to enable networks to provide the required in-situ data for GMES;

Looking for ways to consolidate and prioritise the needs identified for GMES core services in consultation with established GMES constituencies;

Explore ways and propose approaches to integrate in-situ assets into long-term sustainable frameworks;

Provide proofs of concept of operational in-situ architecture by devising solutions for a number of data sets as case studies or ‘quick-wins’ in cooperation with pre-operational FP7 projects, EC bodies, and institutions responsible for in-situ data provision.

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European Environment Agency (EEA)

Air and Climate Change Programme

Anke Lükewille

THANK YOU!