HYMN

Open Science & Policy Workshop

Date:                 Tuesday 13 October 2009

Location:            Conference Room, KMI-IRM, Ringlaan 3, Uccle/Brussels, Belgium

 

   9:00               Welcome

Session 1        HYMN project overview, wider context, and Science and Policy

   9:00 – 9:10     Introduction

Michiel van Weele, KNMI, chair

   9:10 – 9:40     Methane in the Arctic: wetlands, clathrates, gas leaks? - the isotopic view

Euan Nisbet, University of London, Royal Holloway

  9:40 – 10:20    HYMN Project Overview

Michiel van Weele, KNMI

10:20 – 10:45     Discussion: Context, Science and Policy

10:45 – 11:15  Coffee break

Session 2         Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

11:15 – 11:45     The dynamical vegetation model LPJ for trace gas exchange modeling

Pru Foster, University of Bristol

11:45 – 12:15     LPJ-derived methane emissions 1990 – 2006

Renato Spahni, University of Bristol/University of Bern

Session 3         Satellite Observations and Observations from Ground Networks

12:15 – 13:00     Satellite observations of atmospheric methane

Christian Frankenberg, SRON/University of Heidelberg

13:00 – 14:15  Lunch

14:15 – 14:45     Overview of the FTIR activities within HYMN

Katinka Petersen, University of Bremen

14:45 – 15:15     Comparisons of FTIR methane observations with SCIAMACHY

Frank Forster, IMK-IFU, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Session 4         Model Integration and Evaluation and Inverse Modeling

15:15 – 15:45     Methane modeling: evaluation and trend studies

Stig Dalsoren, University of Oslo

15:45 – 16:00  Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30     A comparison of methane data products from Chemistry Transport Models and a quasi-global network of FTIR stations

Bart Dils, BIRA-IASB

16:30 – 17:00     4D-var data assimilation at LSCE

Isabelle Pison, LSCE

Synthesis inversions at LSCE

Philippe Bousquet, LSCE

 

17:00 – 17:30     Constraint of global methane sources from SCIAMACHY and the isotopic record

Lisa Neef, KNMI

17:30 – 18:00     General discussion and workshop conclusions

 

 

Tuesday 20:00 End-of-project dinner at Les frθres Romano, Avenue de Frι, 182

 

 

Participant list

 

Ioannis Bakas

Thomas Blumenstock

Philippe Bousquet                     

Andy Chalmers

Stig Dalsoren

Bart Dils

Pierre Duchatelet

Frank Forster

Pru Foster

Christian Frankenberg               

Ivar Isaksen

Tobias Kerzenmacher

Jon Klyft

Martine de Maziere

Johan Mellqvist

Lisa Neef

Euan Nisbet

Isabelle Pison

Katinka Petersen

Ariane Razavi

Renato Spahni

Peter van Velthoven

Michiel van Weele

 

 

HYMN (Hydrogen, Methane and Nitrous oxide: Trend variability, budgets, and interactions with the biosphere) is funded by the European Commission 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. Contract no. 037048 (GOCE) September 2006 – December 2009.