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Research
Chemistry and Climate
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| Name / Acronym: | GEOMON |
| Full name: | Global Earth Observation and MONitoring of the atmosphere |
| Description: | Geomon brings together 38 labs from the EU, Norway, Switzerland and Russia to watch the European and global air and climate. The project will help us to monitor both the changing atmosphere and the air quality over Europe. Geomon's work will improve Europe's work on greenhouse gases, and help us predict and adapt to global change. Geomon's task is to observe changes in air quality and climate, not only over Europe but also as one of the European contributions to global study. Geomon's work combines several types of observation. Most comes from ground-based observatory networks, located Europe and beyond; some comes from instruments carried by major airlines on planes outfitted with measurement packages; some of the information comes from space, by looking from satellites. This extraordinary range of information is hard for scientists to digest – Geomon will bring it together, let scientists study it coherently, in order to see the world picture.GEOMON is part of the international collaborative effort to establish an integrated and coordinated system of global observation. This is a European contribution to the global GEOSS programme - Global Earth Observation System of Systems.
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| Run Period: | 01 February 2007 - 01 May 2011 |
| Source of finance: | EU FP6 |
| Coordinator: | IPSL-LSCE |
| Partners: | 38 partners, for the Netherlands: KNMI, TNO and ECN |
| KNMI Team: | Ankie Piters, Peter van Velthoven, Frans Alkemade, Annelise du Piesanie |
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| Web site: | http://geomon.ipsl.jussieu.fr |
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Nitrogen oxide distribution simulated with the TM model
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