TROPOMI User Workshop 5-6 March 2008
The objective of the TROPOMI User Workshop was to reach out to a large group of potential users of TROPOMI data and to assess what their specific user needs with respect to TROPOMI data are. To this purpose a large group of potential users was invited to participate to the Workshop. Among the participants and presenters were international representatives of the GMES, GAS, CEOS and GEO initiatives, as well as from the international projects PROMOTE, GEMS, GEOMON, MACC. Also the space agencies ESA, EUMETSAT, NASA and NOAA were represented. From the Netherlands representatives from universities (e.g. Wageningen, TUE, TUD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ...), environmental, climate, weather forecast institutes and companies (RIVM, MNP, KNMI, ARGOSS, ...), as well as representatives of Dutch user groups such as ROAT were present. Further representatives of many of the leading international scientific institutes in the field of atmospheric chemistry where present and presented their work in climate or air quality research (like . Uni-Leicester, Dalhousie University, BIRA/IASB, MPI-CH, NASA GSFC, EPA etc.)
The Workshop was organised around three main user groups, namely scientific users, institutional operational users, and commercial operational data users. The presentations were grouped according to these user groups where it is noted that the scientific and institutional operational user groups are far more developed in this field and thus constituted the main part of the presentations. Nonetheless, the session on commercial users was certainly inspiring and innovative. The commercial presentations also highlighted how reliant we are on having "clean air" not only as a fundamental need for a healthy environment but also as a pre-requisite in the food product processing industries.
In the report of this workshop you will find:
- The User requirements for TROPOMI based on presentations and discussions
- Discussion summary and conclusions
- A description of the TROPOMI instrument and characterics
- Abstracts of the presenations
- The list of participants