WMO International Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Symposium
This three-day symposium brought together stakeholders in person at the WMO Building in Geneva, Switzerland. Remote participation were also available.
OUTCOME Materials:
- Statement by the WMO International Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Symposium
- WMO International Symposium on Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Session summaries
WMO is developing a concept for a sustained, internationally coordinated routine Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure in consultation with a broad group of stakeholders from both scientific, operational, and policy-setting entities. This builds on WMO’s experience with the Global Atmosphere Watch and the Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System, and it incorporates some of the operational practices and globally coordinated and agreed methods used in its World Weather Watch.
The aim of the infrastructure is to (i) to facilitate and encourage the implementation of a fit-for-purpose GHG surface- and space-based observing systems based on shared best practices, standards, and timely and improved access to all GHG-related observations, (ii) improve international coordination of related modeling and data assimilation activities, and (iii) make progress toward establishment of a practice of utilization of routine products provided by GHG system for post-processing and service provision in a manner that is timely to inform policy decisions. The data generated by such a system would support delivery of robust, quantitative information to nations and communities everywhere, including the Parties of the Paris Agreement, through the tailoring to address mitigation action.
The abstract submission has been closed by 6 November 2022, 24:00 CET. Based on the abstract submissions, the programme committee has formed the sessions considering the topics covered by the Symposium. The program was published on 12 December 2022, and the authors were informed directly.
Among the topics discussed were:
- Greenhouse gas budgets, impacting processes and associated uncertainties;
- Observations of GHG in different domains of the Earth System to support GHG analysis (surface-, subsurface-, and space-based);
- GHG exchange between different domains of the Earth System, processes description and climate feedbacks,
- Treatment of GHGs in Earth system modeling, required model improvement and quality control procedures,
- Routine, global GHG monitoring systems: input data requirements and intended output,
- Post-processing of global systems output and tools for decision-makers’ tailoring,
- Potential contribution of the globally coordinated GHG Monitoring Infrastructure to UNFCCC processes;
The Symposium Program Committee was co-chaired by Michel Jean (SG-GHG Chair) and Greg Carmichael (SG-GHG Co-Chair).
The Symposium was followed up by the IG3IS Stakeholder consultations and User Summit.
Final Agenda
Conference Hall: Salle Obasi
Click on individual presentation titles in the programme for access
| Time | Agenda Items | |
| Day 1, Opening Moderator: Dr. Oksana Tarasova/WMO Secretariat |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Introductory Remarks | |
| Prof. Petteri Taalas/WMO Secretary-General | ||
| Prof. Gerhard Adrian/WMO President | ||
| Mr. Masanori Obayashi/Permanent Representative of Japan with WMO | ||
| Mr. Hugo Zunker/ European Commission | ||
| Mr. Michel Jean/Chair of the Program Committee of the GHG Monitoring Symposium | ||
| Session 1: Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring – Setting the Scene Chair: Prof. Stephen Briggs |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Presentation of the Initiative (15 min) | Lars Peter Riishojgaard/WMO |
| Keynote #1 (15 min) – Towards near real time carbon budgets | Philippe Ciais/LSCE | |
| Keynote #2 (15 min) – The Copernicus CO2MVS: towards operational greenhouse gas emission monitoring at global and local scales | Richard Engelen/ECMWF | |
| Keynote #3 (15 min) – Multiple observation platforms and inverse/transport simulations for monitoring GHGs around Asia | Yosuke Niwa/NIES | |
| Coffee Break (30 minutes) | ||
| 11:00-12:10 (10-min for each speaker) |
NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System, a precursor to the new WMO GHG activity | Ken Jucks/NASA |
| Integrated observation network of greenhouse gases in Korea | Daegeun Shin/KMA | |
| Developing an observational network to monitor Australian GHG emissions by top-down methods | Ray Langenfelds/CSIRO | |
| Terrestrial carbon and remote-sensing in near-real-time – a view from the Global Carbon Budget | Stephen Sitch/University of Exeter | |
| The global nitrous oxide budget 2022 | Hanqin Tian/Boston College | |
| Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making: A Framework Going Forward | Irène Xueref-Remy/University of Aix-Marseille | |
| Linking regional to global greenhouse gas budgets in RECCAP2 | Ana Bastos/Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry | |
| 12:10-13:00 | Panel Session 1: • What additional information regarding greenhouse gases is required to support climate action? • How can GHG information help drive international policy? • What are the key required attributes (transparency, consistency, accessibility, sustainability,…) of such information, and who should be providing it? • What are the climate risks associated with a lack of GHG information? |
Moderator: Prof. Stephen Briggs Panelists: Ana Bastos, Mark Dowell, Ken Jucks, Yousuke Niwa, Irène Xueref-Remy |
| Lunch Break (90 min) | ||
| Day 1, Session 2: Greenhouse gases in Earth System modelling and data assimilation Chair: Susanne Mecklenburg |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Keynote #1 (15 min) – Toward sub-degree-resolution for global atmospheric inverse modelling | Frédéric Chevallier/LSCE |
| Keynote #2 (15 min) – The ocean carbon sink: Status quo, uncertainties and known unknowns in the Global Carbon Budget | Judith Hauck/AWI | |
| 15:00-16:00 (10-min for each speaker) | Development of a prototype operational greenhouse gas emissions estimation system | Christopher P Loughner/NOAA |
| CEOS CO2 dataset: Pilot top-down CO2 Budget constrained by the v10 OCO-2 MIP | Kevin Bowman/JPL | |
| Low latency greenhouse gas monitoring based on NASA’s quasi-operational GEOS modeling and data assimilation system | Lesley Ott/NASA | |
| Chinese atmospheric inversion system GONGGA | Xiangjun Tian/ITPCAS | |
| Measuring the impacts of climate policy in predicted changes of atmospheric CO2 growth rate | Tatiana Ilyina/Max Planck Institute for Meteorology | |
| Opportunities and uncertainties in monitoring CO2 sequestration by terrestrial ecosystems at high latitudes using remote sensing | Rui Cheng/MIT | |
| Coffee Break (20 minutes) | ||
| 16:20-16:40 (10-min for each speaker) |
Constraining regional and global ocean carbon fluxes in RECCAP2 | Jens Daniel Müller/ETH |
| Monitoring the “Health” of Global Carbon Cycle with NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory missions | Junjie Liu/JPL | |
| 16:40-17:30 | Panel Session 2: • What is the current status of GHG modeling? • What are the limitations facing more truly integrated Earth System models for GHG applications? And which processes drive the largest uncertainties and how can they be improved? • What are the current capabilities regarding spatial and temporal resolutions of flux estimation using GHG models and associated uncertainties at different scales? • How can the performance be evaluated and used to improve prediction skills? |
Moderator: Susanne Mecklenburg Panelists: David Crisp, Richard Engelen, Judith Hauck, Felix Vogel (virtual) |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Poster Sessions and Opening Reception (Sponsored by Copernicus) | |
| Day 2, Session 3: Observations, data exchange and data management Chair: Jennifer Watts |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Keynote #1 (15 min) – A case for significant enhancement of the vertical profiles in the WMO GHG network | Colm Sweeney/NOAA |
| Keynote #2 (15 min) – Operationalize surface ocean carbon observations to better constrain the global carbon budget | Andrew J. Watson/University of Exeter | |
| 9:30-10:40 (10-min for each speaker) |
Leveraging ESA Climate Data Management In Support of GHG Monitoring Infrastructure | Eduardo Pechorro/ESA |
| FAIR and open data access, the ICOS experience | Alex Vermeulen/ICOS | |
| Building an Effective Global Atmospheric Monitoring Network: Critical Lessons from the AGAGE Experience | Ray F. Weiss/University of California San Diego | |
| The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) | Thorsten Warneke/University of Bremen | |
| Measurements and models of CO2 fluxes from Critical Zone observatories in high-altitude and high-latitude environments | Marta Magnani /CNR | |
| ICOS - The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe | Elena Saltikoff/ICOS | |
| Accounting for GHGs Observational Needs in NOAA’s Current Monitoring System and in the Next-Gen Space Architecture Planning | Sid Boukabara & Mitch Goldberg /NOAA | |
| Coffee Break (20 minutes) | ||
| 11:00-11:30 (10-min for each speaker) |
GLODAP – An interior ocean data product | Toste Tanhua/GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel |
| JAXA’s Greenhouse Gases Monitoring Activities in Support of Emission Estimate | Hiroshi Suto/JAXA | |
| Is the Arctic-boreal permafrost region a carbon sink or source? State-of-knowledge and key uncertainties in high latitude carbon budgets and how this impacts global policy | Jennifer Watts/Woodwell Climate Research Center | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Panel Session 3: • What are the most critical observational gaps in the various domains (atmosphere, ocean, land), both geographically and in terms of variables? • How do we make GHG observations sustainable over time? • What can we do to improve current data exchange practices for GHG observations? • What are the emerging observational capabilities in the area of GHGs in all domains? |
Moderator: Jennifer Watts Panelists: Elena Saltikoff, Hiroshi Suto, Maciej Telszewski, Andrew Watson |
| Lunch Break (90 min) | ||
| Day 2, Session 4: Research and innovation Chair: Kevin Cossel |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Keynote #1 (15 min) – The Global Atmosphere Watch Greenhouse Gas and Related Activities. | Greg Carmichael/GAW |
| Keynote #2 (15 min) – Has Termination Zero begun? – the urgent need to monitor methane isotopes. | Euan G Nisbet/University of London | |
| 14:30-15:20 (10-min for each speaker) |
Sparse data and imperfect models to quantify and project the ocean carbon sink | Galen McKinley/Columbia University |
| Integration of Vantage Points and Approaches in NASA’s Greenhouse Gas Research | Jack Kaye/NASA | |
| Climate TRACE: Harnessing remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and collective data to provide open and transparent estimations of greenhouse gas emissions | Deborah Gordon/Climate TRACE | |
| The role of non-growing season processes in the CH4 and N2O budgets in pristine northern ecosystems | Lona van Delden/Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research | |
| Deforestation represents direct and indirect Amazonia Carbon emissions | Luciana Vanni Gatti/INPE | |
| Coffee Break (20 minutes) | ||
| 15:40-16:10 (10-min for each speaker) |
Decreasing lifetime of N2O over the past two decades | Michael Prather/University of California Irvine |
| Increase in wetland emissions and decrease in atmospheric sink explain the recent high growth of atmospheric methane | Xin Lin/LSCE | |
| US fossil fuel-CO2 emissions and land sinks based on monitoring of atmospheric carbon dioxide and radiocarbon | John B. Miller/NOAA | |
| 16:10-17:10 | Panel Session 4: • What are the most critical gaps in the understanding of GHG cycles? • How will coordinated, sustained, routine GHG monitoring facilitate research? • Which modeling, assimilation and observational techniques are at the stage of research to have a potential for fast transition to operations? |
Moderator: Kevin Cossel Panelists: Luciana Gatti, Galen McKinley, Detlef Stammer, Toste Tanhua |
| 17:10 – 19:00 | Poster Sessions and Reception (Hosted by WMO) | |
| Day 3, Session 5: Application of GHG Monitoring Information and related services Chair: Mark Dowell |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Keynote #1 (15 min) – Earth observations, the Paris Agreement and the GST | Joanna Post/UNFCCC |
| Keynote #2 (15 min) – Using satellites to assist countries in monitoring their methane emissions | Daniel Jacob/Harvard University | |
| 9:30-10:40 (10-min for each speaker) |
Integrating actionable methane emissions data | Daniel Zavala-Araiza/International Methane Emissions Observatory |
| A fit-for-purpose GHG monitoring capacity towards net zero | Mark Dowell/EC-JRC | |
| Satellite observations for monitoring greenhouse gas in correlation with anthropogenic activities in Egypt | Naglaa Zanaty/National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences | |
| Satellite-derived atmospheric CO2 to estimate carbon sources and sinks from different land-cover types in Indonesia | Alberth Nahas/Indonesian Agency For Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics | |
| Marching Toward a Characterization of Urban Methane Emissions | Israel Lopez-Coto/NIST | |
| Progress and outcomes of the carbon monitoring project on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (JJJ) City Cluster | Pengfei Han/IAP-CAS | |
| UK GHG Inventory Verification System | Alistair Manning/UK Met Office | |
| Coffee Break (20 minutes) | ||
| 11:00-11:30 (10-min for each speaker) |
Using atmospheric monitoring tools to understanding methane emissions in Canada from local to national scale | Felix Vogel/ECCC |
| Encouraging the Use of Remote Sensing Observations of Greenhouse Gases by the Policy and Inventory Communities | David Crisp/Crisp Spectra LLC | |
| Towards Enhanced Use of Atmospheric Inversions for QA/QC and Verification of National Emission Inventories in support of UNFCCC | Tomohiro Oda/Universities Space Research Association | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Panel Session 5: • What are the main applications of GHG monitoring output on different scales (e.g., global stocktake, urban applications, sectorial mitigation strategies)? • How do we identify user requirements for GHG information and engage with the end user community? • What are the challenges in tailoring the GHG monitoring outputs to the needs of users? • What factors may limit the uptake of the GHG monitoring infrastructure output? |
Moderator: Mark Dowell Panelists: Jorn Herner, Andrea Kaiser-Weiss, Israel Lopez-Coto, Alistair Manning, Kiyoto Tanabe |
| Lunch Break (90 min) | ||
| Day 3, Session 6: Summary and What We Do Next Co-Chairs: Michel Jean, Greg Carmichael |
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| 14:00-15:30 | Panel Sessions Summaries | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Way forward and closure | |
| End of Symposium | ||
Contact information
For more information please contact:
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, at Lriishojgaard@wmo.int
Jitsuko Hasegawa, at Jhasegawa@wmo.int
Oksana Tarasova, at Otarasova@wmo.int
Bin Qu, at Bqu@wmo.int