1st CIPM STG-CENV • Stakeholder meeting • 16-18 September 2024 • BIPM • Sèvres (France)

Day 1: Monday 16 September 2024

Venue: Pavillon du Mail, BIPM, Sèvres, France. Hybrid meeting with on site and online participation

Session 1: Opening Session – Chair: Dolores del Campo (CIPM)

09:00
09:15
Opening of the meeting, welcome and CIPM STG CENV: Role and Goals

Session 2: Cross-Cutting recommendations/actions from BIPM-WMO 2022 Workshop – Co- Chair: Dolores del Campo (CIPM)

09:15
09:25
Emma WOOLLIAMS – Lost in translation: The need for common vocabularies and an interoperable thesaurus in Earth sciences
09:25
09:35
Philippe GORYL – Committee on Earth Observation Satellites / Working Group Cal/Val – CEOS WGCV – toward Fiducial Reference Measurements
09:35
09:45
Nigel FOX – Fiducial Reference Measurements: What are they? And how do we assure them?
09:45
09:55
Moritz FEIERABEND – Metrology for climate actions: PTB’s Innovation Cluster Environment and Climate
09:55
10:25
Chair – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

10:25 -11:00 - Coffee Break

Session 3: Progress with recommendations on metrology in support of the physical science basis of climate change and climate observations

Session 3A: Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry – Co-Chairs: Betsy Weatherhead and F. Madonna 

10:30
11:00
Pre Discussion
11:00
11:10
Katarzyna BIELSKA – Coordinated interlaboratory comparisons of CO line intensities: towards primary spectroscopic measurements of the amount of gas and spectroscopic reference data for high-accuracy remote sensing applications
11:10
11:20
Gottfried KIRCHENGAST – Met(eo)rology united for climate: GNSS radio occultation as SI-traceable global reference refractometer for atmospheric climate monitoring
11:20
11:30
Thérèse SALAMEH – ACTRIS-EU topical centre for reactive trace gases in situ measurements CiGas: activities and future developments
11:30
11:40
Andrea MERLONE – Enhancing Atmospheric Air Temperature Measurements: A Global Scientific Endeavour
11:40
11:50
Maitane ITURRATE-GARCIA – Transferring metrological principles to low-cost sensors used in networks for air quality monitoring
11:50
12:00
J. Daniel PRADES -Quantumtechnology, Metrology and climate actions
12:00
12:30
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

12:30 -13:30 - Lunch

Session 3B: Oceans and Hydrology – Co-Chairs:  George Petihakis and Johannes Karstensen

13:30
13:40
Katelyn SCHOCKMAN – Development and Characterization of Atlantic Seawater Inorganic Carbon Reference Materials
13:40
13:50
Marc LE MENN – The TRUSTED buoys: an FRM network for SST measurement
13:50
14:00
Steffen SEITZ – CCQM-EAWG Task Group on Metrological Traceability for Seawater pH and pHT Values
14:00
14:10
Regina EASLEY-VIDAL – Development of NIST Measurement Services for the Inorganic Carbon System in Seawater
14:10
14:20
Andrew DICKSON – Assigning values of total dissolved inorganic carbon to CO2-in-seawater reference materials
14:20
14:30
Paola FISICARO – Toward metrological traceability of pHT measurement results to support ocean acidification observations
14:30
15:00
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

15:00 -15:30 - Coffee Break

Session 3C: Earth Energy Balance – Co-Chairs: Laurent Vuilleumier and Thorsten Fehr

15:10
15:30
Pre Discussion
15:30
15:40
Julian GIESELER – Towards comparing the IR scales underpinning Libera and FORUM
15:40
15:50
Steven DEWITTE – Global Stocktake from Space: the Earth Climate Observatory (ECO) for the monitoring of the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI)
15:50
16:00
Daniela NAREZO GUZMAN – Realization of a novel vacuum FIR calibration system in support of ESA’s 9th Earth Explorer Mission FORUM at PTB
16:00
16:10
Ruben URRACA – Uncertainty characterization and validation of BSRN in-situ shortwave radiation fluxes
16:10
16:20
Thomas AUGUST – Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio- Studies (TRUTHS) – A ‘gold standard’ imaging spectrometer in space for radiation imbalance and in support of the climate emergency
16:20
16:30
Emma WOOLLIAMS – CCPR response to the recommendations of the BIPM-WMO Metrology for Climate Action Workshop
16:30
17:00
Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

Session 3D: Biosphere Monitoring : Co-Chairs Julia Marrs and Rubén Urraca

17:00
17:10
Benjamin RAPP – Development and improvement of instrumentation and metrological methods in European Biosphere project for determining the dependence of secondary cosmic rays flux on primary cosmic rays and atmospheric parameters
17:10
17:20
Isabel RODRÍGUEZ-VEIGA – Sediment core dating using fallout radionuclides 137Cs and 210Pbxs in core samples from prePyrenees and Sierra de las Nieves National Park
17:20
17:30
Alexis DERU – Recent progress on uncertainties for Sentinel Earth Observation products
17:30
17:40
Anna PUSTOGVAR – Towards a framework for uncertainty propagation for land cover maps produced by machine learning classification methods
17:40
17:50
FREDERIC MELIN – The beauty of comparison: Example of simultaneous radiometric measurements to verify and estimate uncertainties for ocean remote sensing reflectance data
17:50
18:00
Juha PELTONIEMI – A method for evaluating the effect of spectrally unknown contributions to the uncertainty of Earth Observation quantities
18:00
18:30
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

18:30 -19:30 - Reception at BIPM

Day 2: Tuesday 17 September 2024

Dolores del Campo (CIPM)

Opening Day 2: Chair:  Dolores del Campo (CIPM)

09:00
09:20
IPCC Dr. Robert Vautard, Co-Chair of Task group 1
09:20
09:30
Discussion

Session 3E: Cryosphere Monitoring – Chair: E. Woolliams and Filomena Catapano

09:30
09:40
Carmen GARCIA I. – Intercomparison of radiation shields in polar climate. COAT Project
09:40
09:50
Clément BESNARD-V. – Cosmic neutrons metrology for permafrost studies: ground-ice content monitoring
09:50
10:00
Sajedeh BEHNIA – St3TART-FO: Establishing a framework for operational Fiducial Reference Measurements (FRM) for Sentinel-3 Hydro-Cryo Altimetry products and beyond
10:00
10:10
Igor APPEL – Gaps in Metrology for Terrestrial Snow Cover
10:10
10:20
Sten BERGSTRAND – Geodesy for Climate Observations
10:20
10:30
Ashley MORRIS – Svalbard as a supersite for cryosphere-observing satellite calibration and validation (Cal/Val) activities
10:30
11:00
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break

Session 4: Opening of GHG Monitoring and Progress with metrology as an integral component of operational systems to estimate greenhouse gas emissions based on accurate measurements and analyses – Co-Chairs: James Whetstone and Gianpaolo Balsamo

 

11:30
11:50
WMO G3W initiative: Gianpaolo Balsamo (WMO)
11:50
12:10
Andreea Calcan (UNEP) – UNEP The UN Environment Programme International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO)
12:10
12:30
Leonard Rivier (ICOS) – ICOS activities in Europe

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30
13:50
Richard Barker (NPL) – UK GEMMA initiative
13:50
14:10
Hong Lin (NIM) – Initiatives in China
14:10
14:30
Ben Poulter – Overview of the U.S. GHG Measurement and Monitoring Information System
14:30
14:50
Argie Kavvada – Director of the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center (US GHG Center)
14:50
15:10
All – Discussion on how Metrology programmes can support such initiatives
14:50
15:10
All – Discussion on how Metrology programmes can support such initiatives (Part 2)

15:10-15:40 - Coffee Break

Session 4A: Accuracy requirements for atmospheric composition measurements across economic sectors, and temporal and spatial scales – Co-Chairs:  R. Wielgosz (BIPM) and S. Moreno (WMO)

15:40
15:50
Sangil LEE – Developing KRISS CO2 and CH4 Scales and Isotope Reference Materials: Current Activities and Future Plans
15:50
16:00
Tobias BÜHLMANN – SI-traceable quantification of halogenated VOCs in the atmosphere
16:00
16:10
Hratch SEMERJIAN – New Working Group Formed to Develop ISO Standards on Greenhouse Gas Measurements
16:10
16:20
Christoph NEHRBASS-AHLES – Facilitating the development of a global measurement infrastructure for the measurement of stable isotope ratios for greenhouse gases source apportionment
16:20
16:30
Chris RENNICK – Calibration and reference materials for optical isotope ratio spectroscopy measurements of atmospheric methane
16:30
16:40
Jennifer CARNEY – Progress of the CCQM-GAWG Task Group on GHG Scale Comparisons
16:40
17:10
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

Session 4B: State of play in integrated approaches for advanced GHG emission estimates and the way forward to operational services – Co-Chair:  Leonard Rivier and Phil de Cola

17:10
17:20
Liang ZHANG – Research on Overestimation of CO2 Emission Inventory in Industrial Plants
17:20
17:30
NEETI SINGH – Enhancing Remote Sensing and Infrastructures Meeting Challenges of greenhouse gas emission through System Integration and Continuous Improvement
17:30
17:40
Tom GARDINER -The UK’s Greenhouse gas Emission Emissions Measurement and Modelling Advancement (GEMMA) Programme – towards an operational greenhouse gas emissions evaluation system
17:40
17:50
Frédéric CHEVALLIER – A world of hexagons on graphics processing units: new numerical paradigms for atmospheric inversion
17:50
18:00
Dagmar KUBISTIN -The Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System (ITMS) for Germany
18:00
18:10
Jean-Daniel PARIS -Challenges in addressing diffuse emissions with in situ methane emission quantification
18:10
18:30
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

Day 3: Wednesday 18 September 2024

Co-Chair: Hong Lin and Kevin Cossel

Session 4C: Novel GHG concentration and flux methods and sensors – Co-Chair:  Hong Lin and Kevin Cossel

09:00
09:10
Talaat A ENG. ALRAHALI – Nanometric techniques for climate, data flow analysis and gas concentration
09:10
09:20
Meghan N. BEATTIE – Airborne methane sensors: Emission flux quantification from uncrewed aerial vehicles
09:20
09:30
Colm SWEENEY – The atmospheric profile for GHG – the way to the future
09:30
09:40
Jinliang ZANG – Research on Field Calibration of Differential Absorption Lidar with Controlled Release Facility in Methane Emission Measurement
09:40
09:50
Helen KENION – Use of Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory to estimate urban greenhouse gas emissions from mole fraction measurements and comparison to eddy covariance and a high-resolution inventory
09:50
10:20
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion
09:50
10:20
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion (Part 2)

10:20 -11:00 - Coffee Break

Session 4D: Strengthening the linkage of remote sensing GHG concentration measurements to emission fluxes – Co-Chairs:  Richard Barker + Annmarie Eldering (NIST)

10:50
11:00
Pre discution
11:00
11:10
Joshua LAUGHNER – Current methods to link space-based GHG missions to in situ standards through ground-based FTIR observations
11:10
11:20
Paul GREEN – Satellite-derived methane product standards
11:20
11:30
Mahesh Kumar SHA – Fiducial Reference Measurement for Greenhouse Gases (FRM4GHG) and their applications
11:30
11:40
Ilse ABEN – MEDUSA: Methane Emissions Detection Using Satellites Assessment
11:40
11:50
Dietrich G. FEIST – Implementation of SI-traceability in the TCCON and COCCON observations: the Metrology for Comparable and Trustworthy Greenhouse gas remote sensing datasets (MetCTG ) initiative
11:50
12:20
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion
11:50
12:20
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion (Part 2)

12:20 -13:20 - Lunch

Session 4E: Emerging Metrology Issues (Ocean, CCUS, CDR, Agricultural Emissions…) – Co-Chairs:  Maribel Garcia-Ibañez

13:20
13:30
Brian BUMA – Sources of uncertainty in nature based carbon measurements for CDR
13:30
13:40
Rajesh NAIR – The challenge of integrating metrologically significant information in Ocean Data reporting and exchange
13:40
13:50
Jessica CROSS – Improving metrology for carbon removals, alongside metrology for carbon emissions
13:50
14:00
Paul ROBIN – Using three levels to characterize the verification of national emissions from livestock houses
14:00
14:10
FRANCISCO SÁNCHEZ-JIMÉNEZ – Analysis and Prediction of Ozone Pollution in the Mediterranean Basin through the temporal reconstruction of a High Accuracy Database
14:10
14:20
Brian WASHBURN – Monitoring Beef Cattle Methane Mitigation Using Open-Path Dual-Comb Spectroscopy
14:20
14:50
Co-Chairs – Summary of Key Issues and Discussion

Closing Session – Chair: Dolores del Campo (CIPM)

14:50
15:30
D del Campo – Next Steps and closing remarks
15:30
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