The 5th GAW Expert Workshop on Volatile Organic Compounds

Meeting report (in preparation)

20th October 2014

9:00 – 10:00

Registration

Welcome speech (each 10 min)

• Representatives of KMA and KRISS

Keynote speech (each 30 min)
      • Oksana Tarasova (WMO AER/RES Chief)
         Global Atmosphere Watch Programme: 25 years of global atmospheric composition observations and analysis

       • Ed Dlugokencky (Cahir of WMO GAW SAG on Greenhouse Gases)
Observational Constraints on the Global Methane Budget

       • Ally Lewis (Member of WMO GAW SAG on Reactive Gases)
Progress towards creating a VOC capability within WMO-GAW

  13:00 – 13:20

Twenty years of VOC monitoring in EMEP

Kjetil Torseth

NILU

  13:20 – 13:40

A seven-year (2006-2013) record of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) in the subtropical marine boundary layer at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory

Ally.C. Lewis

University of York

  13:40 – 14:00

Further developments in background VOC monitoring at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Ian Galbally

CSIRO

  14:00 – 14:20

Ten Year Anniversary of the Global Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compound Network

Detlev Helmig

INSTAAR

  14:20 – 14:40

Analysis of 10 Years online C2-C11 NMHC Measurements close to the Gulf of Mexico

Bernhard Rappenglück

University of Houston

  14:40 – 15:00

Field observations of anthropogenic and natural VOCs in East Asia by PTR-MS

Hiroshi Tanimoto

NIES

Coffee breaks

  15:30 – 15:50

Global Network Volatile Organic Compound Data for Evaluation of Impacts of Oil and Gas Development

Detlev Helmig

INSTAAR

Session 2 Quality Assurance

Chair Detlev Helmig

  15:50 – 16:20

VOC Measurement Guidelines – from ACTRIS Drafts to GAW Recommendations

Stefan Reimann

EMPA

  16:20-17:30

Discussion on the VOC MGs

17:30 – 18:00

21th October 2014

8:30-9:00

Joint Coffee break with participants of the Asia-Pasific Workshop on Greenhouse gases

Session 3 GAS standards

   Chair Christian Plass-Dulmer

9:00 – 9:20

Review and progress on standards for the measurements of biogenic and anthropogenic VOCs in the atmosphere

Marivon Corbel

NPL

9:20 – 9:40

Monoterpene Gas Standard Developments at NIST

Jerry Rhoderick

NIST

9:40-10:00

Development of Standard Gas Mixtures for Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) and Acetonitrile at KRISS

Sangil Lee

KRISS

10:00-10:20

Progress on both dynamic and static formaldehyde standards at the μmol mol-1 level

Joele Viallon

BIPM

10:20-10:40

KEY-VOCs project: Metrology for VOC indicators for air pollution and climate change

Annarita Baldan

VSL

10:40-11:00

Discussion : need for VOC gas standards in GAW

Review of the gas standards table

Session 4 Quality Assurance (part 2)

  Chair Stefan Reimann

11:00 – 11:20

The challenge of preparing ambient air standards for calibrating VOC analysis systems

Rainer Steinbrecher

KIT

11:20-11:40

VOC Round-Robin Exercise for VOCs in the framework of the European Infrastructure project ACTRIS – results and suggestions for implementation

Stefan Reimann

EMPA

11:40-12:00

Side-by-side Intercomparison for OVOC in the framework of ACTRIS

Christian Plass-Dulmer

DWD

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00

General Discussion session (including further discussions on Measurement Guidelines)

Chair Ally Lewis

15:00-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-18:00

no official schedule (buffer)

22th October 2014

9:00-11:00 KRISS Lab tour

11:00-12:00 Lunch

12:00-14:00 KRISS to AMY(Bus)

14:00-16:00 technical tour in AMY station

16:00-18:00 AMY to Hotel(Bus)